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Kickstart android development with xamarin
The document is a guide for kickstarting Android development using Xamarin and C# within Visual Studio, outlining the author's background and contributions. It covers basic concepts like Xamarin history, app structure, and necessary tools, as well as step-by-step instructions for creating a sample app. The guide emphasizes hands-on learning through building apps and integrating with server APIs.
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- 1. Kickstart Android Development withXamarin Build Native Apps using the power of C# with Visual Studio
- 2. Who am I •Write C# and TypeScript (JavaScript) Code wherever possible • Make some contribution in Github (https://github.com/foyzulkarim) • Make some videos in YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/foyzulka rim) • Write some technical post (http://learn.foyzulkarim.com) • Building SaaS Platform for local e- commerce industry (https://www.facebook.com/bizbook 365) • Senior Software Engineer at Cefalo • Founder and CEO at Code Coopers What do I do
- 3. Agenda • What isXamarin (aka. Xamarin.Forms) • Our first app • Deep dive • Talk with REST • Database • Sync Mechanism To make you confidant and excited enough to start working on Xamarin on your own
- 4. Xamarin • History • Startedas Mono in 2001 • Novell bought it in 2003 • Attachmate bought it in 2011 • Microsoft bought it in 2016 • How it works (brief) • C# has equivalent reference class • For iOS, AOT compilation makes .ipa • For Android, JIT makes .apk • No Cordova type of magic here • Pre-requisites • Need to know any OOP language (Java/C# etc) • Tools • Visual Studio • And a lot of spaces (30 to 40 GB)
- 5. Our First App •Start with defaults • Lets run the app
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- 9. What are these‘gibberish’ things • Pages : How the screens will be organized in top level • Layouts: How the individual screen will be organized using controls • Views: Simply its just controls Everything (or almost everything) in Xamarin can be written in C#. So you can skip XAML, MVVM etc. things if you don’t want to learn.
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- 25. What do Ineed to do if I want to create a sign in page?
- 26. Steps • A page •A layout • Some controls • Add the page to the app • Run
- 28. Demo (002 -App2 – signin)
- 29. Working with ListView •Create a ListView instance Magic
- 30. Working with ListView •Create others
- 31. Working with ListView •Add to the page
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- 33. 003 - App2- listview
- 34. What's next? • Goto detail • Load the data into stack layout • Add the stack layout to the page • Easy !!!
- 35. Talk with REST •Install package • Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client • Newtonsoft.Json
- 39. 004 - App2- Signin
- 40. Load Brands fromserver
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- 42. 005 - App2- REST
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- 48. Where to gofrom here? • xamarin.com • mva.microsoft.com • Xamarin.Forms by Charles Petzold (Free)