Chapter 2. Building a SpeechTalk Application

In this chapter, we introduce development with Xamarin.Forms. We will build a cross-platform application for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone that integrates native platform speech services to speak text typed from a text field.

Expected knowledge:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio.

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

  • Cross-platform development with Xamarin.Forms
  • Setting up platform projects
  • Setting up a SpeechTalk.iOS project
  • Setting up a SpeechTalk.Droid project
  • Xamarin.Forms, Windows Phone, and Visual Studio
  • Inversion of Control (IoC) with Xamarin.Forms
  • AutoFac
  • iOS text-to-speech implementation
  • Bindings
  • Android text-to-speech implementation
  • Setting up IoC with Android
  • WinPhone text-to-speech implementation
  • IoC with ...

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