Chapter 1.  Building a Gallery Application

This chapter will walkthrough native development with Xamarin by building an iOS and Android application that will read from your local gallery files, and display them in a UITableView and ListView. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

Expected knowledge:

  • Creating iOS provision certificates
  • iOS development
  • Objective-C
  • Creating keystores
  • Android development
  • Java

In this chapter you will learn the following:

  • Creating an iOS project
  • Creating a UIViewController and UITableView
  • Customizing a cell's appearance
  • Creating an Android project
  • Creating an XML interface and ListView
  • Shared projects
  • Custom row appearance
  • Bitmap functions
  • The ALAssetLibrary
  • Adding the iOS photo screen
  • Adding the Android photo screen ...

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