Xamarin University Visual Studio Training (2017)

Start learning with select Xamarin University courses. As a Visual Studio subscriber, you get on-demand access to select Xamarin University course recordings and guest lectures to help you get started with mobile development. Xamarin and Microsoft equip you with everything you need to build and design amazing consumer-facing and enterprise-ready iOS, Android, and Windows apps in C#. You can watch at any time to brush up on skills.

Installing Xamarin
1. Installing Xamarin on OS X

We’ll walk you through how to set up your Mac machine and get you ready to build fully native apps.
2. Installing Xamarin on Windows

We’ll walk you through how to set up your Windows machine and get you ready to build fully native apps.

Xamarin.iOS
1. Introduction to Xamarin.iOS

Dive into iOS architecture, app structure, and UI basics.
2. Getting started with the iOS Designer

Explore Xamarin.iOS’ visual designer and use a WYSIWYG designer to create app screens straight from the IDE.
3. Fundamentals of Table Views

Get started with presenting lists of interactive data using a Table View in your iOS application.
4. Navigation Patterns in iOS

Explore built-in iOS navigation styles to manage multiple screens in your apps.
5. Customizing iOS Table Views

Build on your iOS Table View knowledge to customize the visual cells used to display your data.
6. Introduction to Backgrounding

Explore iOS background options, to complete critical operations—even when your app is backgrounded.

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Cross-Platform
1. Introduction to Cross-Platform Mobile Development

Dive into sharing your code between your platforms using Portable Class Libraries and Shared Projects.
2. Using Async and Await

Learn how to use C# async and await keywords to simplify your asynchronous code and the benefits and drawbacks of this language feature.
3. Consuming REST Web Services

Learn how to manage your mobile connectivity to access RESTful web services.

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Xamarin.Android
1. Introduction to Xamarin.Android

Learn Android development basics, including tool chain, app structure, and other fundamentals.
2. Activities and Intents

Understand Android Activities and Intents, allowing you to create multiple pages for engaging apps.
3. List Views and Adapters in Android

Learn how to enhance your Xamarin.Android apps with a ListView to display, and interact with lists of scrollable data.
4. Navigation Patterns in Android

Learn how to use the most common navigation styles in Android to manage multiple Activities in your apps.
5. RecyclerView and CardView in Android

Start using the new RecyclerView and CardView controls to display collections of data.
6. Introduction to Backgrounding in Android

Learn how Android manages your Activity lifecycle, and how to continue to execute code even when your app is no longer active.

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Xamarin.Forms
1. Introduction to Xamarin.Forms

Take code sharing to the next level with Xamarin.Forms. Define a single UI that creates a native user experience for iOS, Android, and Windows.

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Guest Lectures
1. Azure Mobile Services and Xamarin

David Giard explains how to connect your Xamarin projects to Azure for native, cloud-connected apps for all platforms.
2. Introduction to Prism for Xamarin.Forms

Brian Lagunas shares how to use Prism to enhance your Xamarin.Forms apps and create maintainable, well-designed apps quickly.
3. UI Design with Xamarin.Forms

Adam Wolf shows you how to build beautiful, native UIs and share maximum code with Xamarin.Forms.
4. Building polished, production-ready Xamarin.Forms apps

Rob DeRosa shares his tips and tricks for delivering polished enterprise and consumer Xamarin.Forms apps.
5. Using and developing plug-ins with Xamarin.Forms

James Montemagno teaches you to how to use Xamarin plug-ins to easily access common native APIs from your shared code projects and build apps even faster.
6. Spice up Xamarin.Forms UIs with Custom Renderers

Pierce Boggan explores how Custom Renderers allow you to create even better Xamarin.Forms apps.

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