Xamarin in Action

Part 3. From working code to the store

Once your app builds and runs, there’s still a ways to go to get a production-quality app on the iOS and Android stores. In this part of the book, you’ll take one of the example apps from the previous chapters and work through the steps to get it running on real devices, test the UI, add analytics to ensure it works once deployed, and then roll it out to the stores.

Chapter 13 looks at how to run apps on real devices (which is harder than you might think), including setting up Android devices for developers, configuring iOS devices, and generating iOS provisioning profiles.

Chapter 14 covers UI testing—the ability to write and run automated tests that interact with your app the way a real person would. ...