Building Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAML

Leverage 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. Building Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAML explains how to bind UI to data models using data binding and using the MVVM pattern, and how to customize UI elements for each platform using industry-standard menus, effects, custom renderers, and native view declaration. 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Building Apps Using Xamarin

Chapter 2: Building Xamarin.Forms Apps Using XAML

Chapter 3: UI Design Using Layouts

Chapter 4: Styles, Themes, and CSS

Chapter 5: User Interaction Using Controls

Chapter 6: Making a Scrollable List

Chapter 7: Navigation

Chapter 8: Custom Renderers, Effects, and Native Views

Chapter 9: Data Access with SQLite and Data Binding

About the Author

Dan Hermes (@danhermes) is a Xamarin MVP, software consultant, and principal of Lexicon Systems. Dan helps companies create great mobile apps and develop a winning mobile strategy. He speaks at conferences and teaches Xamarin and software development at user groups and corporate training facilities. Past speaking engagements include Boston Code Camp, Project Summit, and various Mobile C# groups. Previously Dan wrote Xamarin Mobile Application Development for developers and technologists who want to understand how to build cross-platform mobile apps in C# using Xamarin.

Nima Mazloumi is an Enterprise Architect, IT Strategist and Senior Programme Manager. He helps organizations to navigate through large IT transformations and to translate emerging technologies to products and solutions that generate value. Nima dedicates his efforts to learning, capacity building, helping others to excel, the generation and dissemination of knowledge, and ideas that actively contribute to the betterment of the world.