1. Working with Xamarin.Android
by Matthew Leibowitz
Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook
- Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Working with Xamarin.Android
- Introduction
- Creating Xamarin.Android projects
- Creating user interface layouts
- Creating an options menu
- Supporting previous Android versions
- Adding an action bar
- Navigating with the action bar
- Adding action bar action items
- Creating contextual action mode menu
- Creating contextual action mode menus
- Sharing code with other platforms
- 2. Showing Views and Handling Fragments
- Introduction
- Using custom views with layouts
- Creating and using fragments
- Preserving view and fragment state
- Navigating between fragments
- Fragments and the action bar
- Animating fragment navigation
- Animating view and object properties
- Animating views on the UI
- Adding a navigation drawer with fragments
- Applying local styles and global themes
- 3. Managing App Data
- Introduction
- Storing data with SharedPreferences
- Using files and the filesystem
- Reading bundled assets and resources
- Parsing, processing, and generating XML
- Accessing data with ADO.NET
- Accessing data with SQLite.NET
- Encrypting databases with SQLCipher
- Consuming content providers
- Creating content providers
- Backing up preferences and files to the cloud
- Backing up data to the cloud
- 4. Presenting App Data
- 5. Communicating with the Outside World
- 6. Using Background Tasks
- 7. Notifying Users
- 8. Interacting with Other Apps
- 9. Presenting Multimedia
- 10. Responding to the User
- 11. Connecting to Wearables
- 12. Adding In-App Billing
- 13. Publishing Apps
- Index
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Creating Xamarin.Android projects
- Creating user interface layouts
- Creating an option menu
- Supporting previous Android versions
- Adding an action bar
- Navigating with the action bar
- Adding action bar action items
- Creating contextual action mode menu
- Sharing code with other platforms
Xamarin.Android allows us to create native Android applications using the same UI controls we would use in Java, with the flexibility of C#, the power of the .NET Base Class Library, and two first-class IDEs.
Android development with Xamarin can be done on either Mac OS X or Windows, using either Visual Studio or Xamarin Studio. This variety provides us with our choice of how we want to work to create awesome apps.
This book will enable us, as developers, to create amazing, professional apps for the Android ecosystem. This knowledge can be used on so many platforms, from TVs and smartphones to watches, wearables, and many other Android-powered devices.
This chapter covers some of the most common tasks and steps to getting our app ready for development. We will learn how to create a new app, add support for the old versions of Android, and get started with the user interface used in all Android apps. We will also look at just how powerful the Xamarin.Android platform is by looking how we can share code with many other platforms, including Windows Phone, iOS, Windows, and Mac.
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