Cross Platform Development with Xamarin - Portable Class Libraries and ASP.NET Razor Templating
My training on Cross Platform Development with Xamarin w/ Portable Class Libraries and ASP.NET Razor Templating is now available online from Learn Now Online. The url is: http://www.learnnowonline.com/course/cpx1/xamarin-cross-platform-pcl-and-razor
Course description
In this course we’ll cover cross platform mobile development using Xamarin. First we’ll cover Portable class libraries (PCLs). PCLs are tools provide .NET developers a way to share code between platforms with one library. PCLs help developers reduce the time and costs of development and testing code. With a PCL project, one library can be used by multiple platforms. Then we’ll move onto Mobile web apps. Mobile web apps are a very popular mechanism to target mobile devices. Unfortunately, there are times that a mobile web app cannot access device specific features. Xamarin provides a mechanism to host an ASP.NET MVC Razor Web Template/Page within a native application. This provides the cross platform capabilities of the web while still allowing applications to access native features of device.
I hope that you enjoy the course as well as my others at LNO.
Course outline
Compilation (42:37)- Introduction (00:18)
- .Net Compilation (01:33)
- iOS Compilation (02:32)
- Android Compilation (03:10)
- API Support - Two Platforms (02:09)
- API Support - Three Platforms (01:04)
- Solution (02:04)
- Benefits (01:40)
- Disadvantages (01:09)
- Platforms Supported (01:59)
- Feature Support (00:38)
- Nuget (02:08)
- Supported Platforms (00:47)
- IDE Support (01:39)
- Demo: Create PCLs - Create (03:58)
- Demo: Create PCLs - Nuget (04:04)
- Demo: Creating PCLs - Detail (04:27)
- Demo: Create PCLs - Android (06:42)
- Summary (00:27)
VB and Info (13:50)
- Introduction (00:25)
- Visual Basic Support (01:20)
- Demo: VB PCL Project (04:40)
- Compared to File Linking (02:12)
- Issues (02:32)
- Licensing (01:06)
- Urls of Interest (00:33)
- Previous Courses (00:30)
- Summary (00:26)
Web in the UI (14:44)
- Introduction (00:26)
- Agenda (01:06)
- Mobile Web (02:30)
- Problem (01:45)
- Solution (01:02)
- Initial Setup (02:20)
- Demo: Mobile Web - iOS (02:21)
- Demo: Mobile Web - Android (02:48)
- Summary (00:23)
Razor Templating (27:08)
- Introduction (00:24)
- ASP.NET Razor Template (01:03)
- Initial Concept (01:17)
- General Concept (00:50)
- Pass Data In (00:38)
- Add Files - iPhone (01:11)
- Add Files - Android (00:51)
- Pull Data Out (01:40)
- Android - Call C# from JS (01:20)
- Demo: Razor Template – iOS (04:48)
- Demo: Data Pullback (04:24)
- Demo: Loading Local Content (01:18)
- Demo: Razor Template – Android (03:21)
- Demo: Load Data (03:26)
- Summary (00:28)