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Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781786465412
Pages 292 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jonathan Peppers Jonathan Peppers
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Xamarin 4.x Cross-Platform Application Development - Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Xamarin Setup 2. Hello, Platforms! 3. Code Sharing Between iOS and Android 4. XamSnap - A Cross-Platform App 5. XamSnap for iOS 6. XamSnap for Android 7. Deploying and Testing on Devices 8. Contacts, Camera, and Location 9. Web Services with Push Notifications 10. Third-Party Libraries 11. Xamarin.Forms 12. App Store Submission

Using preprocessor statements


When using shared projects, one of your most powerful tools is the use of preprocessor statements. If you are unfamiliar with them, C# has the ability to define preprocessor variables such as #define IPHONE, and then using #if IPHONE or #if !IPHONE.

The following is a simple example of using the technique:

#if IPHONE 
  Console.WriteLine("I am running on iOS"); 
#elif ANDROID 
  Console.WriteLine("I am running on Android"); 
#else 
  Console.WriteLine("I am running on ???"); 
#endif 

In Xamarin Studio, you can define preprocessor variables in your project's options under Build | Compiler | Define Symbols, delimited with semicolons. These will be applied to the entire project. Be warned that you must set up these variables for each configuration setting in your solution (Debug and Release); it can be an easy step to miss. You can also define these variables at the top of any C# file by declaring #define IPHONE, but they will only...

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