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Introduction to Cross-Platform Mobile Development with Xamarin

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Introduction to Mobile Development with Xamarin

This lesson introduces Xamarin and how to use the software to develop mobile applications.

Building a Xamarin Forms UI - Layout Containers

This lesson is a practical deep dive into the basics of using Xamarin Forms to design and layout a mobile app's user interface.

Building a Xamarin Forms UI - Resources

In this lesson, we introduce resources as a means of streamlining the customizations and formatting of the UI elements.

Building a Xamarin Forms UI - Code Behind

In this lesson, we manipulate a Xamarin Forms UI with C# in the code-behind file.

Building a Xamarin Forms UI - Navigation

This lesson explains how to implement basic content page navigation using Xamarin Forms NavigationPage class.

Building a Xamarin Forms UI - Controls

In this lesson, we create a page for entering basic user details, set up the controls in XAML, and use C# in the code-behind file to coordinate controls' actions.

Xamarin Forms - MVVM

This lesson covers the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) architecture template and how to use it when creating a Xamarin Forms app in Visual Studio.

This Course is designed to get you started with mobile app development using C#, .NET and Xamarin.

Learning Objectives

Set up a Visual Studio development environment targeting Andriod and iOS
Use XAML layouts to design screens
Streamline the user interface with Xamarin resources
Implement page navigation
Use code to create dynamic page layouts
Adding controls and images with platform specifc customizations
Understand Xamarin's implementation of Model-View-ViewModel

Intended Audience

People who want to start developing cross platform mobile applications
C# developers who want to apply their knowledge to mobile development

Prerequisites

Basic programming knowledge with exposure to .NET
Apart from the introduction course, the demostrations use Visual Studio for Windows

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Hallam is a software architect with over 20 years experience across a wide range of industries. He began his software career as a Delphi/Interbase disciple but changed his allegiance to Microsoft with its deep and broad ecosystem. While Hallam has designed and crafted custom software utilizing web, mobile and desktop technologies, good quality reliable data is the key to a successful solution. The challenge of quickly turning data into useful information for digestion by humans and machines has led Hallam to specialize in database design and process automation. Showing customers how leverage new technology to change and improve their business processes is one of the key drivers keeping Hallam coming back to the keyboard.

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