Join James as he walks through his latest creation, Island Tracker(https://islandtracker.app) for Animal Crossing on iOS and Android. Built full cross-platform with Xamarin.Forms and leveraging Azure Functions and Table Storage as the cloud backend he will discuss his full architecture and demo how it all was pulled together. He will talk about lessons learned, preparing for release, continuous integration, user testing, and more! If you have ever wanted an insight into creating and deploying a cloud connected app then join in.
34. Shell Navigation Service
[QueryProperty("CityId", "id")]
public partial class CityDetailPage :
ContentPage
{
public CityDetailPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
public string CityId
{
set
{
// do something with the Id
}
}
}
You can build anything with .NET.
.NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications. With .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build for web, mobile, desktop, gaming, and IoT. .NET is designed to be general-purpose so that once a developer learns how to build one type of application, they can quickly build other types of applications for completely different workloads – developer skills can easily transfer to other domains using the same languages and libraries.
.NET enables developers to be more productive building feature-rich applications of any type, for any device with great performance.
Xamarin enables you to use C# to access all of iOS, Android, and Windows using .NET. You can even write your UI in C# and use the same storyboards and xml for native UI.
Xamarin helps you even more by sharing your UI using C#, XAML, and common .NET patterns such as MVVM with Xamarin.Forms, and providing a unified device API library with Xamarin.Essentials for common access to things like GPS, secure storage, file system, and more.
The first part in the head projects is access to any of the unique APIs in iOS and Android. You have access to them all in C#. Now, these do have to be written in the head project and aren’t shared since they are unique to each platform. However, the Xamarin team has a way to help us out there.
Which is Xamarin.Essentials. An open source library that abstracts common native features into a single cross platform API for iOS, Android, and Windows. These are APIs that exist across each platform so why not bring them together.
What about the user interface? Just like APIs you can build the native UI for each platform. However, many developers choose to share all or most of the UI with Xamarin.Forms