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Published inFeb 2024

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ISBN-139781837634910

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Michael Cummings

Daniel Hindrikes

Johan Karlsson

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To get the most out of this book

We recommend that you read the first chapter to make sure that you are up to speed with the basic concepts of Xamarin in general. After that, you could pretty much pick any chapter you would like to learn more about. Each chapter is standalone but the chapters are ordered by complexity; the further you are into the book, the more complex the app will be.

The apps are adapted for real-world use but some parts are left out, such as proper error handling and analytics, since they are out of the scope of the book. However, you should get a good grasp of the building blocks of how to create an app.

Having said that, it does help if you have been a C# and .NET developer for a while, since many of the concepts are not really app-specific but are good practice in general, such as MVVM and Inversion of Control.

But, most of all, it’s a book you can use to kick-start your .NET MAUI development learning curve by focusing on what chapters interest you the most.

Software/Hardware covered in the book	OS requirements
Visual Studio Community Edition. A computer capable of running Windows 10 or later for UWP and Android. A Mac that is capable of running macOS Mojave 10.14 to use the iOS simulator	Windows 10 or later, macOS Sierra 10.12 or later
Xcode. A Mac that is capable of running macOS Sierra 10.14	macOS Mojave 10.14

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book’s GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

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Authors (3)

Michael Cummings

Michael Cummings is a Senior Development Engineer with Microsoft. He currently works on the Visual Studio tooling for building WPF, Xamarin.Forms, and .NET MAUI apps. He has experience as a developer and architect with concentrations in app development, design, deployment, and business process as it relates to technology. Michael has been a graphics and game programmer since the days of the TI99-4/A. He started the Boston XNA Developers Group. He has contributed to many open-source projects, including AXIOM, a .NET/Mono 3D rendering engine, and Planeshift, a 3D MMORPG. Michael also has experience with native game and graphics development (C++/DirectX) on Windows. Michael lives in Lexington, MA with his wife and their dog. When not working with technology he enjoys watching movies, trying out new recipes, and the occasional game of full-contact racquetball.
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Daniel Hindrikes

Daniel Hindrikes is a developer and architect with a passion for developing mobile apps powered by the cloud. Daniel fell in love with Xamarin in the early days of Xamarin when he realized that he could use C# even for iOS and Android apps, and that he could share code with the Windows apps he was also building. But Daniel started to build mobile apps long before that, working on Android apps with Java and even Java ME apps (a long, long time ago). Daniel enjoys sharing his knowledge and can be found speaking at conferences, blogging, or recording the podcast, The Code Behind. Daniel works at the company tretton37 in Sweden and has experience working with both local and global customers.
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Johan Karlsson

Johan Karlsson has been working with Xamarin since the days of MonoTouch and Mono for Android, and it all started with writing a game. He is a full-stack developer, currently focusing on mobile applications using Xamarin, but has in the past worked a lot with ASP.NET MVC, Visual Basic.NET (not proud), and C# in general. Also, he's created a whole bunch of databases in SQL Server over the years. Johan works at tretton37 in Sweden and has about 20 years' experience in the trade of assembling ones and zeros.
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