Xamarin Training Course

Xamarin Course Contents

Introduction to Xamarin platform

• Introduction to Mobile Development
• Differences between Starter vs. Indie vs. Business licenses.
• Xamarin store
• What types of mobile apps can be created with Xamarin Studio vs. Visual Studio on both Windows and OS X.
• Requirements for creating a Xamarin.iOS application

Xamarin and C# (Optional day training to make this course a 5-days course. This is not required for C# developers) 

• Collections in C#
• More about classes and methods
• Shifting from Console to Mobile
• Adding Behavior in our Apps
• Inheritance and Polymorphism
• Introduction to C#
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Using Async and Await
• Writing Multithreaded Mobile Applications
• Introduction to Thread Safety and Synchronization
• Debugging and Exceptions
• Branching and Looping

Cross-Platform App Development

• Best practices for developing mobile applications with Xamarin
• Introduction to Portable Class Libraries
• Differences and approaches to sharing source code files (File Linking vs. SAPs vs. PCLs)
• Techniques used to switch to the UI thread (platform-specific and cross-platform)
• Basic knowledge of Xamarin.Social component (what it supports)
• Basic knowledge of the Xamarin.Mobile component (what it supports)
• Differences between common design patterns used in mobile development (MVVM, IoC/DI, Singleton, etc.) [covered all throughout Xamarin University classes and labs]
• Using the Nuget and Xamarin Component Store
• Basic knowledge of .NET libraries you can use in Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android
• Using the async / await keywords
• Diagnosing Memory Issues

Navigation

• Tabbed Applications in iOS
• Fragments in Android
• Navigation patterns used in Android
• Navigation patterns used in iOS
• How to add items to the Android Options menu

Data in Mobile

• Working with the File System
• Data in Mobile
• Advantages annd restrictions to SQLite
• ORM libraries used in the mobile world (what was covered in XAM160)
• How to abstract paths in Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS
• Isolated storage on Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS and Windows Phone

Xamarin Web Services

• Web Services in Xamarin
• Common architecture and data formats used in Web Services
• Approaches you can use to access a web service from a Xamarin application.
• Available bindings in WCF/SOAP for Xamarin

Xamarin.Forms

• Introduction to Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin.Forms Control Gallery
• Xamarin.Forms core types - Page types, Layout containers, etc.
• What is XAML?
• Basic binding features
• Customizing the ListView in Xamarin.Forms
• Model-View-ViewModel in Xamarin.Forms
• Resources and Styles in Xamarin.Forms
• XAML in Xamarin.Forms
• Data Binding in Xamarin.Forms
• Using ListView in Xamarin.Forms

Enterprise Services

• Securing Local Data
• Using the Xamarin Salesforce Component
• Accessing OAuth 2 Web Services with Xamarin.Auth
• Data Caching + Synchronization

Android App Development in Xamarin

• Android Getting Started
• Working with ListViews
• Maps and Locations
• Android application core types - Activity, Intent, Adapter, ListView, Context, Bundle, etc.
• Project types included with Xamarin and Visual Studio for Xamarin.Android
• Setting an id on an Android view
• How to launch an Activity
• Resources and Assets in Android
• Layouts in Android
• Android Mainfest settings
• Android Support libraries (what do they do, what is supported, etc.)
• Working with Emulators in Android
• What native types can be used in Xamarin.Android
• How Xamarin.Android executes your code.
• Working with Locations in Android
• Built-in adapter types in Android

iOS App Development in Xamarin

• iOS Getting Started
• Introduction to Storyboards
• Tables in iOS
• Maps and Locations
• Views in iOS
• Working with Images
• iOS applicationc ore types - AppDelegate, UIWindow, UIView, Storyboards, UIViewControllers, etc.
• Launch images in iOS
• Project types included with Xamarin and Visual Studio for Xamarin.iOS
• XIBs vs. Storyboards
• Universal apps (_not_ Unified API)
• How Xamarin.iOS executes your code.
• Working with MKMapView, setting pins, setting current location, finding points-of-interest etc.
• Approaches to providing data and customizing a UITableView (Delegate, Source, WeakDelegate)
• Gesture recognizers in iOS (from Touch in iOS)
• Attributes used in Xamarin.iOS ([Register], [Outlet], [Export] etc.)
• What is in the Info.plist
• Handling images for normal vs. retina displays.
• Positioning UIViews in code (Frame vs. Bounds vs. Center)
• Restrictions of the iOS Simulator
• Folders in the app (Documents vs. Library)
• Autosizing ("Springs and Struts") in the designer
• Unsupported .NET features in Xamarin.iOS due to no JIT.
• Loading images in iOS (UIImage.FromXXX)
• Creating a provisioning profile
• Tools used to profile a Xamarin.iOS Application

Testing

• Deploying to Test Cloud
• Working with Xamarin.UITest
• Intro to Testing

Publishing an application

• Android Deployment & Publishing
• iOS Deployment & Publishing
• What are the basic steps for deploying an application to Google Play & iOS AppStore.
• Application packaging for each platform (what is contained in the app, what is the extension, etc.)

Project in Xamarin App development

Project - Create a complete application using Xamarin

Work on all your Xamarin skills to build an app with the help of instructor.