Xamarin Cross-platform Application Development

Jonathan Peppers is a Xamarin MVP and lead developer on popular apps and games at Hitcents such as the Hanx Writer (for Tom Hanks) and the Draw a Stickman franchise. Jon has been working with C# for over 10 years working on a wide range of projects at Hitcents. Jon began his career working Self-Checkout software written in WinForms and later migrated to WPF. Over his career, he has worked with many .NET-centric technologies such as ASP.Net WebForms, MVC, Windows Azure, WinRT/UWP, F#, and Unity3D. In recent years, Hitcents has been heavily investing in mobile development with Xamarin, and has development over 50 mobile applications across multiple platforms.

Table of Contents

Xamarin Setup
Hello, Platforms!
Sharing Code Between iOS and Android
XamChat, a Cross Platform App
XamChat for iOS
XamChat for Android
Deploying and Testing on Devices
Web Services with Push Notifications
Third Party Libraries
Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Mobile
Xamarin.Forms
App Store Submission