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Mastering Xamarin.Forms

You're reading from Mastering Xamarin.Forms App architecture techniques for building multi-platform, native mobile apps with Xamarin.Forms 4

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781839213380

Length 200 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Xamarin

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Ed Snider

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started

2. MVVM and Data Binding FREE CHAPTER

3. Navigation

4. Platform-Specific Services and Dependency Injection

5. User Interface

6. API Data Access

7. Authentication

8. Testing

9. App Monitoring

10. Other Books You May Enjoy

11. Index

The Xamarin.Forms navigation API

Along with abstracting common user interface elements into a multi-platform API, Xamarin.Forms also abstracts navigation for iOS, Android, and Windows into a single easy-to-use navigation service. Each mobile platform does navigation in a slightly different way and has a slightly different navigation API; however, at their core, they all accomplish similar tasks, and, in most cases, use a stack structure – last in, first out.

The Xamarin.Forms navigation API uses stack-like terminology, closely resembling the navigation APIs of iOS. The Xamarin.Forms navigation API is exposed through the Xamarin.Forms.INavigation interface, which is implemented via the Navigation property that can be called from any Xamarin.Forms.VisualElement object. Typically, Xamarin.Forms.Page is the object used. Xamarin.Forms.NavigationPage also implements the Xamarin.Forms.INavigation interface and exposes public methods to perform common navigation tasks.

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Authors (1)

Ed Snider

Ed Snider

Ed Snider is a senior software developer, speaker, author, and Microsoft MVP based in the Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area. He has a passion for mobile design and development and regularly speaks about Xamarin and Windows app development in the community. Ed works at InfernoRed Technology, where his primary role is working with clients and partners to build mobile and media focused products on iOS, Android, and Windows. He started working with the .NET framework in 2005 when .NET 2.0 came out and has been building mobile apps with .NET since 2011. Ed blogs at edsnider[dot]net and can be found on Twitter at twitter[dot]com/edsnider.

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