- Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Working with Xamarin.Android
- Introduction
- Creating Xamarin.Android projects
- Creating user interface layouts
- Creating an options menu
- Supporting previous Android versions
- Adding an action bar
- Navigating with the action bar
- Adding action bar action items
- Creating contextual action mode menu
- Creating contextual action mode menus
- Sharing code with other platforms
- 2. Showing Views and Handling Fragments
- Introduction
- Using custom views with layouts
- Creating and using fragments
- Preserving view and fragment state
- Navigating between fragments
- Fragments and the action bar
- Animating fragment navigation
- Animating view and object properties
- Animating views on the UI
- Adding a navigation drawer with fragments
- Applying local styles and global themes
- 3. Managing App Data
- Introduction
- Storing data with SharedPreferences
- Using files and the filesystem
- Reading bundled assets and resources
- Parsing, processing, and generating XML
- Accessing data with ADO.NET
- Accessing data with SQLite.NET
- Encrypting databases with SQLCipher
- Consuming content providers
- Creating content providers
- Backing up preferences and files to the cloud
- Backing up data to the cloud
- 4. Presenting App Data
- 5. Communicating with the Outside World
- 6. Using Background Tasks
- 7. Notifying Users
- 8. Interacting with Other Apps
- 9. Presenting Multimedia
- 10. Responding to the User
- 11. Connecting to Wearables
- 12. Adding In-App Billing
- 13. Publishing Apps
- Index
Matthew Leibowitz is a professional software engineer living in South Africa, and is currently working in a Xamarin development team. He has many years of professional experience as a programmer in developing systems ranging from servers, to desktops, to mobile devices.
He has a passion for programming and has recently been awarded Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer certification for his work. He has written various articles on his blog and has participated in several forums.
With his experience and great passion for development, Matthew spends his days continually looking for new ways to create a better experience for users and other developers. Some of his work is seen on GitHub under the username mattleibow. In addition to his public code, Matthew is active on Twitter with the same username.
I would like to thank my family for enduring my late nights and putting up with my strange behavior for the time it me took to put all this together. They have been very encouraging and have inspired me to share my knowledge with the world.
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