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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
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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

Understanding the basics of an iOS app


Before we start developing our app, let's review the main settings of the application. Apple uses a file named Info.plist to store important information about any iOS app. These settings are used by the OS itself and when an iOS application is installed on a device by the Apple App Store. Begin development of any new iOS application by filling out the information in this file.

Xamarin Studio provides a neat menu to modify values in the Info.plist file, as shown in the following screenshot:

The most important settings are as follows:

  • Application Name: This is the title below an app's icon in iOS. Note that this is not the same as the official name of your app in the iOS App Store.

  • Bundle Identifier: This is your app's bundle identifier or bundle ID. It is a unique name to identify your application. The convention is to use a reverse domain naming style beginning with your company name, such as com.jonathanpeppers.xamsnap.

  • Version: This is the version number...

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