Xamarin Mobile Application Development: Cross-Platform C# and Xamarin.Forms Fundamentals

Foreword

Dan Hermes’ extraordinary book is the most intelligent work on cross-platform mobile development I’ve seen. He focuses on Xamarin.Forms but provides a comprehensive guide as well to Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS. This puts Xamarin.Forms in context, and explains the underlying native code for those who want to know not only how to write with Xamarin.Forms but why it works and what’s under the hood. I learned a lot from these parts of this excellent book.

Dan made the decision to write all the examples in C#. While I prefer writing much of the UI in Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), his approach does make clear what is actually being created. Most important, you can download all the examples in both C# and XAML, and all ...