iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook

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iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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

Chapter 1. Development Tools

Introduction

Installing prerequisites

Creating an iOS project with Xamarin Studio

Interface Builder

Creating the UI

Accessing the UI with Outlets

Adding Actions to controls

Compiling an iOS project

Debugging our application

Chapter 2. User Interface – Views

Introduction

Adding and customizing views

Receiving user input with buttons

Displaying images

Displaying and editing text

Using the keyboard

Displaying progress

Displaying content larger than the screen

Navigating through the content divided into pages

Displaying alerts

Creating a custom view

Styling views

Chapter 3. User Interface – View Controllers

Introduction

Loading a view with a view controller

Navigating through different view controllers

Providing controllers in tabs

Modal view controllers

Creating a custom view controller

Using view controllers efficiently

iPad view controllers

UI flow design with storyboards

Unwinding in storyboards

Chapter 4. Data Management

Introduction

Creating files

Using a SQLite database

Preparing for iCloud support

iCloud key/value storage

Chapter 5. Displaying Data

Introduction

Providing lists

Displaying data in a table

Customizing rows

Editing a table

Table indexing

Searching through the data

Creating a simple web browser

Displaying data in a grid

Customizing the grid

Chapter 6. Web Services

Introduction

Consuming web services

Consuming REST services

Communicating with native APIs

Using WCF services

Chapter 7. Multimedia Resources

Introduction

Selecting images and videos

Capturing media with the camera

Playing videos

Playing music and sounds

Recording with the microphone

Managing album items directly

Chapter 8. Integrating iOS Features

Introduction

Starting phone calls

Sending text messages and e-mails

Using text messaging in our application

Using e-mail messaging in our application

Managing the address book

Displaying contacts

Managing the calendar

Chapter 9. Interacting with Device Hardware

Introduction

Detecting the device orientation

Adjusting the UI orientation

Proximity sensor

Retrieving the battery information

Handling motion events

Handling touch events

Recognizing gestures

Custom gestures

Using the accelerometer

Using the gyroscope