- Xamarin Blueprints
- Xamarin Blueprints
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Building a Gallery Application
- Create an iOS project
- Creating a UIViewController and UITableView
- Customizing a cell's appearance
- Creating an Android project
- Creating an XML interface and ListView
- Shared projects
- Custom row appearance
- Bitmap functions
- The ALAssetLibrary
- Adding the iOS photo screen
- Adding the Android photo screen
- Summary
- 2. Building a SpeechTalk Application
- Cross-platform development with Xamarin.Forms
- Setting up platform projects
- Setting up the SpeechTalk.iOS project
- Setting up the SpeechTalk.Droid project
- Xamarin.Forms, Windows Phone, and Visual Studio
- Inversion of Control (IoC) with Xamarin.Forms
- Autofac
- iOS text-to-speech implementation
- Bindings
- Android text-to-speech implementation
- Setting up IoC with Android
- WinPhone text-to-speech implementation
- IoC with Windows Phone
- Platform independent styling
- Summary
- 3. Building a GPS Locator Application
- Core location and GPS
- Handling location updates
- Android and the LocationManager
- Creating an exit point
- Creating an API key for Android
- Creating our Windows project
- Core Location Services with Windows Phone
- The Application class
- Web services and data contracts
- What about data contracts?
- Creating another API key for geocoding
- Creating GeocodingWebServiceController
- Newtonsoft.Json and Microsoft HTTP client libraries
- ModernHttpClient and client message handlers
- Feeding JSON data into the IObservable framework
- More Reactive Extensions
- Resource (RESX) files
- Using GeocodingWebServiceController
- OnNavigatedTo and OnShow
- Pythagoras equirectangular projection
- How are we going to calculate the closest position?
- Summary
- 4. Building an Audio Player Application
- Solution setup
- Inversion of control with MVVMCross
- View-models with Xamarin native
- Creating the bindings
- NSLayoutContraints
- MVVMCross setup inside the PCL
- Setting up MVVMCross with iOS
- Setting up MVVMCross with Android
- The SoundHandler interface
- Implementing the iOS SoundHandler using the AVAudioPlayer framework
- The Mvx IoC container
- The audio player
- A cleaner code approach to NSLayout
- Creating AudioPlayerPageViewModel
- Implementing the Android SoundHandler using the MediaPlayer framework
- XML and Mvx bindings
- MvxActivities
- Summary
- 5. Building a Stocklist Application
- Understanding the backend
- Creating an ASP.Net Web API 2 project
- Building an API controller
- Setting up the mobile projects
- Building core mobile projects
- Improving app performance
- Creating a global App.xaml
- Theming with ControlTemplates
- Updating the MainPageViewModel
- Creating the Stocklist web service controller
- ListViews and ObservableCollections
- Value converters
- Adding a DataTemplate to the global resource dictionary
- Styles
- Further optimization with XAML
- Creating StockItemDetailsPage
- Custom renderers
- Adding styles for custom elements
- Creating StockItemDetailsPageViewModel
- Setting up the native platform projects
- Hosting the Web API project locally
- Summary
- 6. Building a Chat Application
- The Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern
- Architecture
- SignalR
- Starting with Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN)
- Setting up the AuthenticationRepository
- Setting up mobile projects
- Setting up the navigation service
- Handling Hub proxy callbacks
- Implementing the LoginPresenter
- Creating the connection between Presenter and View
- Building the LoginActivity
- Implementing the ClientsListPresenter
- Creating ClientListViewController
- The TaskCompletionSource framework
- Creating the ClientsListActivity
- Overriding the OnBackPressed activity
- Building the ListAdapter
- Building the ChatPresenter
- Building the iOS ChatView
- Extending the UIColor framework
- Android TableLayouts
- Building the Android ChatActivity
- Running the server and clients
- Summary
- 7. Building a File Storage Application
- Project structure setup
- Building a data access layer using SQLite
- Building the ISQLiteStorage interface
- Adding additional threading techniques
- Creating the AsyncSemaphore
- Creating the AsyncLock
- Implementing native setup requirements for SQLite
- Implementing the IoC container and modules
- Implementing cross-platform logging
- Implementing the SQLiteStorage class
- Introduction to C# 6.0 syntax
- Handling alerts in view-models
- Building the IMethods interface
- Building the ExtendedContentPage
- Building a CarouselView using custom layouts
- Adding scroll control to the CarouselView
- Building a CustomRenderer for native gestures
- Building the user interface
- Using a SynchronizationContext
- Building the EditFilePage
- Behaviours
- Challenge
- Building the Windows Phone version
- Summary
- 8. Building a Camera Application
- Solution setup
- Building the MainPageViewModel class
- Improving the INotifiedPropertyChanged implementation
- Creating the custom UI objects
- Building the FocusView
- Xamarin.Forms animations
- Xamarin.Forms compound animations
- Building the CameraView
- Building a control for the iOS camera
- Building the iOS CameraRenderer
- Integrating the Android Camera2 framework
- Building the CameraViewRenderer in Android
- Handling native touch events through the FocusView
- Using RX to handle events
- Building a VisualElementRenderer for iOS
- Building the CustomImageRenderers
- Building the UIImageEffects class
- Building the CustomImageRenderer for Android
- Triggers
- Platform effects
- Building the CameraPage
- Adding native orientation events
- Challenge
- Summary
We have built almost everything in the Camera.Portable and Camera projects, but there are still pieces missing. Here is another challenge. Fill in the missing pieces of the solution and get it compiling The remaining files are the exact same from all our other Xamarin.Forms solutions, but now it is your turn to finish off the project.
Tip
To see the finished version, refer to https://github.com/flusharcade/chapter8-camera.
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