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Published inDec 2016
Reading LevelIntermediate
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ISBN-139781786465412
Edition3rd Edition
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C#
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.NET
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Cross Platform Mobile Development
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Jonathan Peppers
Jonathan Peppers
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Jonathan Peppers

Jonathan Peppers is a Xamarin MVP and lead developer on popular apps and games at Hitcents such as the Hanx Writer (for Tom Hanks) and the Draw a Stickman franchise. Jon has been working with C# for over 10 years working on a wide range of projects at Hitcents. Jon began his career working Self-Checkout software written in WinForms and later migrated to WPF. Over his career, he has worked with many .NET-centric technologies such as ASP.Net WebForms, MVC, Windows Azure, WinRT/UWP, F#, and Unity3D. In recent years, Hitcents has been heavily investing in mobile development with Xamarin, and has development over 50 mobile applications across multiple platforms.
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Building your first iOS application

Launch Xamarin Studio and start a new solution. Just like in Visual Studio, there are lots of project types that can be created from the New Solution dialog. Xamarin Studio, formerly MonoDevelop, supports the development of many different types of projects such as C# applications targeting the Mono runtime or .NET Core, NUnit test projects, and even other languages besides C#, such as VB or C++.

Xamarin Studio supports the following project types for iOS:

  • Single View App: This is the basic project type that sets up an iOS storyboard along with a single view and controller.

  • Master Detail App: a project type containing a list of items that you can tap to view details about. On iPhone/iPod it will use multiple controls taking up the full screen area and the iOS UISplitViewController on iPad.

  • Tabbed App: This is a project type that automatically sets up a UITabViewController for applications with a tab layout.

  • Page-Based App: This project type automatically...

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Jonathan Peppers is a Xamarin MVP and lead developer on popular apps and games at Hitcents such as the Hanx Writer (for Tom Hanks) and the Draw a Stickman franchise. Jon has been working with C# for over 10 years working on a wide range of projects at Hitcents. Jon began his career working Self-Checkout software written in WinForms and later migrated to WPF. Over his career, he has worked with many .NET-centric technologies such as ASP.Net WebForms, MVC, Windows Azure, WinRT/UWP, F#, and Unity3D. In recent years, Hitcents has been heavily investing in mobile development with Xamarin, and has development over 50 mobile applications across multiple platforms.
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