Beginning Xamarin Development for the Mac

Create iOS, watchOS, and Apple tvOS apps with Xamarin.iOS and Visual Studio for Mac
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4842-3131-9
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Develop apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Apple wearables using Visual Studio for the Mac. 

Learn how to set up your development environment and emulators, and how to create adaptive user interfaces for various platforms. Expert Dawid Borycki guides you through the fundamentals of programming for Apple platforms (Model View Controller, Test Driven Development), navigation patterns, gesture handling, accessing user's location, and reading and consuming data from web services.
After reading this book, you will be able to build native apps that look and feel like other apps built into iOS, watchOS, and tvOS, and have the skills that are in high demand in today’s market. If you are already programming C# apps for web or desktop, you will learn how to extend your skill set to Apple mobile, wearable, and smart TV platforms. 

What You'll Learn

• Build and implement native apps for Apple platforms
• Create adaptive, universal views and handle navigation between them
• Access user's location and handle touch input
• Consume data from web services
• Minimize app development time with C#

Who This Book Is For

Developers who are interested in mobile and device development, as well as experienced non-Apple developers who want to switch or extend their skill set to programming for Apple platforms

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borycki, Dawid

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Macintosh Programmierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Webprogrammierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Microsoft Programmierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Betriebssysteme Mac OS, Mac OS X
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Handheld Programmierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Fundamentals.- Chapter 2: App structure and lifecycle.- Chapter 3: Views.- Chapter 4: Navigation.- Chapter 5: Touch.- Chapter 6: Unit Testing.- Chapter 7: Consuming RESTful web services.- Chapter 8: watchOS.- Chapter 9: tvOS.

Über Autor(innen)

Dawid Borycki is a software engineer, biomedical researcher, and an expert in several Microsoft developer technologies. He has resolved a broad range of software development challenges for device prototypes (mainly medical equipment), embedded device interfacing, and desktop and mobile programming. Dawid regularly speaks at international developers conferences and has published, cited, and presented on numerous developer topics, including web technologies, mobile/cross-platform development, wearables, embedded, and more.