Description
Book SynopsisLeverage Xamarin.Forms to build iOS and Android apps using a single, cross-platform approach. This book is the XAML companion to the C# guide Xamarin Mobile Application Development.
You''ll begin with an overview of Xamarin.Forms, then move on to an in-depth XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) primer covering syntax, namespaces, markup extensions, constructors, and the XAML standard. XAML gives us both the power of decoupled UI development and the direct use of Xamarin.Forms elements. This book explores the core of the Xamarin.Forms mobile app UI: using layouts and FlexLayouts to position controls and views to design and build screens, formatting your UI using resource dictionaries, styles, themes and CSS, then coding user interactions with behaviors, commands, and triggers.
You''ll see how to use XAML to build sophisticated, robust cross-platform mobile apps and help your user get around your app using Xamarin.Forms navigation patterns.
Table of Contents
1: Building Apps Using Xamarin
2: Building Xamarin.Forms Apps Using XAML
3: UI Design Using Layouts
4: Styles, Themes, and CSS
5: User Interaction Using Controls
6: Making a Scrollable List
7: Navigation
8: Custom Renderers, Effects, and Native Views
9: Local Data Access with SQLite and Data Binding
