Xamarin.Forms Projects: Build seven real-world cross-platform mobile apps with C# and Xamarin.Forms

Explore Xamarin.Forms to develop dynamic applications

Key Features
Explore SQLite through Xamarin to store locations for various location-based applications
Make a real-time serverless chat service by using Azure SignalR service
Build Augmented Reality application with the power of UrhoSharp together with ARKit and ARCore
Book Description
Xamarin.Forms is a lightweight cross-platform development toolkit for building applications with a rich user interface.

In this book you'll start by building projects that explain the Xamarin.Forms ecosystem to get up and running with building cross-platform applications. We'll increase in difficulty throughout the projects, making you learn the nitty-gritty of Xamarin.Forms offerings. You'll gain insights into the architecture, how to arrange your app's design, where to begin developing, what pitfalls exist, and how to avoid them. The book contains seven real-world projects, to get you hands-on with building rich UIs and providing a truly cross-platform experience. It will also guide you on how to set up a machine for Xamarin app development. You'll build a simple to-do application that gets you going, then dive deep into building advanced apps such as messaging platform, games, and machine learning, to build a UI for an augmented reality project.

By the end of the book, you'll be confident in building cross-platforms and fitting Xamarin.Forms toolkits in your app development. You'll be able to take the practice you get from this book to build applications that comply with your requirements.

What you will learn
Set up a machine for Xamarin development
Get to know about MVVM and data bindings in Xamarin.Forms
Understand how to use custom renderers to gain platform-specific access
Discover Geolocation services through Xamarin Essentials
Create an abstraction of ARKit and ARCore to expose as a single API for the game
Learn how to train a model for image
classification with Azure Cognitive Services
Who this book is for
This book is for mobile application developers who want to start building native mobile apps using the powerful Xamarin.Forms and C#. Working knowledge of C#, .NET, and Visual Studio is required.

Table of Contents
Introduction to Xamarin
A To-do app, building your first app with Xamarin.Forms
A matchmaking app with a richer UX using animations and platform specifics
Building a location tracking app using GPS and maps
Building a weather app for mobile, tablets and desktop using Flexlayout and VisualStateManager
Setting up serverless backend for a real time chat app using Azure SignalR service
Building a real time chat app powered by Azure SignalR service
Whack-a-bug  Creating an AR game
Hot dog or Not - Image classification with machine learning in Azure