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Xamarin studio book3/23/2023 OneDrive: Used to be google drive, now I work at MS!.Visual Studio Code: Pretty good text editor.Backblaze - Well worth the price each month to backup your entire machine.GitHub Desktop for Windows - Hands down my favorite Git client and better than the VS integration.Xamarin iOS Simulator for Windows - In preview and you have to be on alpha, but awesome.Chrome: My favorite browser with Vysor installed for displaying an Android device on your PC.You can grab it from TechNet More Installs In my blog post about delivering great technical presentations I mention how I zoom in and out during a presentation. You sort of can’t live without it! ZoomIt Amazing! You can download the preview here. This is an awesome feature of Xamarin to run your code live from a mark down file. Misc Other Installs: Workbooks & Inspector This setup everything that may have been missing. This was the first time I have ever seen this, so I headed over to /download and downloaded the universal installer. I actually ran into an issue when installing VS and it told me that for some reason part of the Android SDK did not install. Enable it! This fixes long build times when date times are weird.Select Enable use of Bitlocker authentication requiring preboot keyboard input on slates (this will enable the tablet part of the book).Go Into Edit Group Policy Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> BitLocker Drive Encryption -> Operating System Drives.I wanted to ensure that I could setup BitLocker with a password I specified. So this was for some reason difficult on my Surface Book as there were no TPM profiles installed. I figured I would take a few moments to document what I installed and setup to get everything running. Of course, my fear is always actually getting things setup for the very first time as it has been a few years since my last clean build. The book is available on Amazon and sold directly by the publisher.I recently aquired a brand new fancy Surface Book, fully speced out and ready to go for Xamarin development. It certainly convinced me to use Xamarin.Android for my first Android application. It's definitely enough to get you started and makes it much easier to decide whether this is the right way to build Android applications or not. NET C# developer with no previous development experience on Android. Nevertheless the book is a great first step into the world of Xamarin.Android for a seasoned. It would also be very useful to include some recommended development practices for reusing code between platforms and handling Android specifics. In particular more information about testing the applications on actual devices and some guidance on how to best take advantage of existing resources for Java Android development when working in Xamarin. There were a couple of topics I missed in the book. The book concludes with some basics about application deployment again very useful for those, not already familiar with the platform. NET developers really need to transition to the new platform and the book does a good job at it. Once that was out of the way, the chapters nicely focused on individual Android specifics, such as building the UI, handling the navigation and working with sensors. Even though Xamarin Studio is being used, it is similar enough to Visual Studio and shouldn't require much attention. I found this approach engaging and easy to follow by building that same application while reading.įor a book targeting existing C# developers, it started a bit too slow in my opinion, spending too much time on the basics if IDE. The author decided to organize the chapters around a single application, building it from start to finish, while gradually incorporating new features. It gave me a nice foundation to build upon during the remainder of the book. I really liked how the book started out with an introduction to the Android platform and some technical insight into the architecture of Xamarin.Android and its integration with the platform. It was a great opportunity to actually try out Xamarin.Android. When I got the offer to review Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android written by Mark Reynolds and published by Packt publishing, I didn't think much. I've been planning to take a closer look at Xamarin products for quite some time now, I just needed something to actually get me started.
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