Xamarin Mobile Application Development for iOS by Johnson, Paul F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Xamarin Mobile Application Development for iOS

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Errata Piracy Questions

1. Installing the Xamarin Product Range for Android and iOS

Installing Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android

Downloading the software Installing the software

Enabling Visual Studio to build and run iOS applications

On the Mac On the PC

Installing additional code for Android development

For iOS users

Summary

2. The User Interface

Creating the User Interface with Xcode

Screen origins and sizes

MonoTouch.Dialog (MT.D)

Changing the keyboard type

Using ShouldReturn Using ResignFirstResponder Adding a toolbar to the keyboard

For an MT.D For a standard UITextField

Creating your own Pickers on MT.D UITableView and UITableViewCell Colors, buttons, and labels

Ensuring you have the correct size bounding boxes UIColor UIButton UIControlStates

Summary

3. Views and Layouts

Selection of the project type

Application types and their view types

The iOS layout

The Canvas model How to avoid some of these problems

Views and View Controllers

Other Views

Activity Indicator and Progress View UIImageView UICollectionView

Cells Supplementary Views Decoration View Data source Cell Reuse

UIWebView MapView UIScrollView AdBannerView

Implementing a view with multiple View Controllers

Summary

4. Controllers

UITableView and UITableViewCell

Creating a read-only table UITableViewCell

Reusable cells within a table Sections and Rows Indexes on a TableView

Navigation with UITableView

Within code With Xcode

Navigation using UITableView

Returning to the RootView

TabBars

Handling the Tab Bar in code

PageControl GLKit Summary

5. UI Controls

Controls and widgets UI Controls

Control selection

UIButton

UIStepper The other controls

Comparing Android to iOS UI controls Summary

6. Events

Handling events

Delegates

Attaching an event to multiple controls

Synchronous versus asynchronous event handling

Synchronous walk Asynchronous walk In a programming context

Events and controls reference

Other significant control events

AVAudioPlayer and AVRecordClass AVAudioSession ABAddressBook ABNewPersonViewController ABPeoplePickerNavigationController ABPersonViewController ABUnknownPersonViewController AudioConverter AudioSession InputAudioQueue OutputAudioQueue AUGraph and AudioUnit AudioConverter CAAnimation CBCentralManager CBPeripheral CBPeripheralManager CFSocket CFStream CLLocationManager MidiClient MidiEndpoint and MidiPort Monotouch.Dialog BadgeElement, BaseBooleanImageElement, GlassButton, LoadMoreElement, MessageElement, and StringElement BoolElement DateTimeElement DialogViewController EntryElement StyledStringElement EKCalendarChooser EKEventEditViewController and EKEventViewController EAAccessory

The NS classes

NSCache NSKeyedArchiver NSKeyedUnarchiver NSNetService NSNetServiceBrowser NSStream GLKView GK classes GKAchievementViewController, GKFriendRequestComposeViewController, and GKLeaderboardViewController GKGameCenterViewController GKMatch GKMatchmakerViewController GKSession MKMapView MPMediaPickerController MFMailComposeViewController and MFMessageComposeViewController PKAddPassesViewController QLPreviewController

SK classes

SKProductsRequest SKRequest SKStoreProductViewController

UIClasses

UIAccelerometer UIActionSheet and UIAlertView UIButtonBarItem UIImagePickerController UIPageViewController UIPopoverController UIPrintInteractionController UIScrollView UISearchBar UISplitViewController UITabBar UITabBarController UITextField UITextView UIView UIWebView

Ad classes

AdBannerView AdInterstitialAd OpenTK IGameWindow IPhoneOSGameView

Summary

7. Gestures

Gestures

Gesture code Types Adding a gesture in code Continuous types

Other UIGestureRecognizerState values

Handling drag-and-drop Summary

8. Threading

Threading Concepts The main UI thread

Deadlocking Avoiding deadlocks for synchronized accessors

Starting a new thread from the main UI thread

Using locks

The AppDelegate class Summary

9. Threading Tasks

A brief introduction to threading

Using background threading within your app

BackgroundWorker ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem

Using System.Threading.Tasks Problems while using Tasks on threads

Using Asynchronous code

Tasks and EventHandlers A more practical example

Summary

10. Animation

Handling bitmaps

Scaling the image Rotating the image – Part 1

Underpinning bindings

Analysis of the code

Freeing memory after use

Rotating the image – Part 2

Summary

11. Handling Data

Using SQLite

Installing and setting up SQLite Database basics

A simple database class Create a connection to the database

Setting up an SQLite helper class

Writing helper class methods Adding data to the database

Data manipulation using LINQ

LINQ – a whistle-stop tour

SELECT and WHERE in LINQ – a common cause of confusion Using Select in LINQ Replacing SQL with LINQ

Summary

12. Peripherals

Using the camera

Accessing the camera (Xamarin.Mobile) Accessing the camera (Native) Saving to the Photo album (Native)

GPS and Mapping

GPS with Xamarin.Mobile

Calculating your speed

Using Core Location

Setting up Core Location and delegate Finding where the user is Adding a map Adding a pin

Storage on the phone Making a phone call Sending and receiving a text message Accessing the Internet Multimedia

Playing a video

External URL Internal source From the photo library

Recording a video

To record a video Saving the video

The audio system

Playback

Short files Long (and compressed) files Setting the power levels Playing the audio file Altering the volume

Recording Audio

Setting up the audio NSDictionary

Setting up to record Recording the audio file

Summary

13. User Preferences

The built-in system

Reading and writing to the .plist file

Rolling your own settings system

Serializing and deserializing data Setting up the Settings file

The handler class

Adding an accessor

The data class

Summary

14. Testing and Publishing

Provisioning and signing your app TestFlight

Provisioning

Registering the app Creating the developer profile Creating your certificate Back to registering your app Enabling TestFlight within Xamarin Studio

Registering on TestFlight Inviting and registering devices Building to TestFlight Releasing your app

App checklist Icon sizes

Preparing to package

Packaging your app Creating the build configuration

The App Store Submission Process

Creating an archive Submission via Xcode The submission wizard

Summary

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