Developing Android and iOS Apps with C# using Xamarin

1. Introduction to Xamarin

• Introduction to Xamarin
• Xamarin vs. Hybrid Framework vs. Native Framework
• Xamarin Development IDE – Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio
• Xamarin Architecture
• Xamarin Cross platform solutions
• Xamarin Advantages
• Xamarin Shared Projects
• Xamarin Portable Class Libraries

2. Using Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio

• Creating New Project
• Review Project Structure
• New/Import File to Project
• Auto Completion
• Refactoring Source Code
• Debugging
• Adding Library Package & Component

3. Get Started with XAML

• Introduction to XAML
• XAML vs Code
• Content Property
• Accessing Elements in Code-behind
• Data Binding
• Binding Context
• Property Element Syntax
• XAML Compilation

4. Layouts

• Stack Layout
• Absolute Layout
• Relative Layout
• Grid
• Scroll View

5. Images

• Image Sources
• Activity Indicator
• Embedded Images
• Platform-specific Images
• Application Icons
• Dealing with Sizes

6. Lists

• Populating a Basic List
• Cell Appearance
• Custom Cells
• Grouping Items
• Handling Selections
• Context Actions
• Pull to Refresh
• Search Bar

7. Navigation

• Introduction to Navigation
• Hierarchical Navigation
• Modal Pages
• A Simple Master Detail
• Master Detail Page
• Tabbed Page
• Carousel Page
• Displaying Popups
• Toolbar Items

8. Forms and Setting Pages

• Introduction
• Switch
• Slider
• Stepper
• Entry and Editor
• Picker
• Date and Time Picker
• Table View
• Custom Cells
• Bindable Properties
• Picker with Navigation

9. Data Access

• Introduction
• Application Properties
• A Cleaner Implementation
• File System
• PCLStorage
• Setting Up SQLite
• Using SQLite
• INotifyPropertyChanged Interface

10. Consuming REST-based Web Services

• How to integrate with and consume RESTful web services in mobile applications.
• Techniques to monitor the network status of the device
• Introduction to the tenets of REST architecture
• how to properly retrieve, insert, update and delete information from a REST-based service
• Using the cross-platform HttpClient class

11. MVVM Architectural Pattern

• What is MVVM?
• Code-behind and Testability
• Extracting a View Model
• BaseViewModel
• Domain vs View Model
• Dealing with Xamarin Dependencies