Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition. Develop, test, and deliver fully-featured Android applications using Xamarin

Technology trends come and go, but few have generated the excitement, momentum, or long-term impact that mobile computing has. Mobile computing impacts people’s lives at work and at home on a daily basis.

Many companies and individual developers are looking to become a part of the movement but are unsure how to best utilize their existing skills and assets. The Xamarin suite of products provides new opportunities to those who already have a significant investment in C# development skills and .NET code bases, and would like to enter into this new, exciting world.This example-oriented guide provides a practical approach to quickly learn the fundamentals of Android app development using C# and Xamarin.Android.

• You will learn to create ListView and add detail view to your Android application.

It will lead you through building an Android app step-by-step with steadily increasing complexity.Beginning with an overview of the Android and Xamarin platforms to provide you with a solid understanding of the underlying platform, we gradually walk through building and testing a Points of Interest Android app using C# and the Xamarin.Android product. You will handle application behaviors on orientation changes, before learning the different techniques to manage resources and layouts to support multiple screen sizes.

• You will then access a SQLite database in a cross-platform way and add location features to your application.
• Finally, you will add camera integration to your application and deploy your app to the various Android app stores.