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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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In this chapter, we went over the concept for a sample application that we will be building throughout this book called XamSnap. We also implemented the core business objects for the application in the Model layer. Since we do not have a server to support this application yet, we implemented a fake web service. This gives us the flexibility to move forward with the app without building a server application. We also implemented the ViewModel layer. This layer will expose operations in a simple way to the View layer. Finally, we wrote tests covering the code we've written so far using NUnit. Writing tests against shared code in a cross-platform application can be very important, as it is the backbone of more than one application.

After completing this chapter, you should have completed the shared library for our cross-platform application in its entirety. You should have a very firm grasp on our application's architecture and its distinct Model and ViewModel layers. You should also...

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Published in: Dec 2016Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781786465412

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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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