Beginning Xamarin Development for the Mac (eBook)

Dawid Borycki is a software engineer, biomedical researcher, and an expert in several Microsoft developer technologies. He has resolved a broad range of software development challenges for device prototypes (mainly medical equipment), embedded device interfacing, and desktop and mobile programming. Dawid regularly speaks at international developers conferences and has published, cited, and presented on numerous developer topics, including web technologies, mobile/cross-platform development, wearables, embedded, and more. 

Contents 5
About the Author 9
About the Technical Reviewer 10
Acknowledgments 11
Introduction 12
Chapter 1: Fundamentals 14
Setting Up the Development Environment 15
Hello, World! App 21
Creating the Project 21
Storyboard Designer 29
User Interface 30
AlertViewController 33
Actions 36
Action Sheet 38
Summary 39
Chapter 2: App Structure and Lifecycle 40
An Entry Point 40
AppDelegate 42
View Lifecycle 45
Information Property List 47
Entitlements Property List 48
Launch Storyboard 49
Storyboards Under the Hood 51
Model View Controller 54
Persisting Data 55
Summary 59
Chapter 3: Views 60
Basic Controls 60
Tables 63
Displaying Items 64
Selecting Items 68
Deleting Items 70
Web View 74
Google Geocoding API 77
Invoking JavaScript Functions 79
Map View and Geolocation 81
Auto-Layout 86
Size Classes 90
UI Thread 93
Summary 95
Chapter 4: Navigation 96
Tab Bar 96
Pages 103
Navigation Between View Controllers 108
Editing a Segue 110
Unwind Segue 111
Preparing for Segues 112
Summary 113
Chapter 5: Touch 114
Touches and Gesture Recognizers 114
Swipe and Long-Press Gesture Recognizers 116
Manipulating Controls with Gestures 120
Pan Gesture Recognizer 120
Detecting Gesture Location 122
Rotation and Pinch Gesture Recognizers 124
A Total Affine Transformation 124
Rotating and Scaling the Control 126
Simultaneous Gesture Recognition 127
Summary 129
Chapter 6: Unit Testing 130
Creating a Model to Test 132
Implementing Unit Tests 133
Running Unit Tests 139
User Interface Tests 140
Creating an App 141
Xamarin Test Cloud Agent 141
Creating UI Tests 143
Xamarin Test Cloud 148
Provisioning Profile 149
Running Tests in the XTC 153
Summary 155
Chapter 7: Consuming RESTful Web Services 156
REST Service Client 158
Updating Data 161
Getting a Specific User 162
Testing the REST Client 162
Users Repository 165
Presenting a List of Users 168
Displaying User Details 171
Summary 175
Chapter 8: watchOS 176
Creating the Project 176
Watch App Bundle 178
Watch Extension 179
Hello, Watch! 179
Watch Simulator 182
View Lifecycle 184
App Lifecycle 186
Text Input 188
Force Touch and Navigation 190
Notification Controller 194
ClockKit and Complication Controller 197
Glance Controller 202
Summary 204
Chapter 9: tvOS 205
Creating a Project 206
User Interface 207
OpenWeatherMap API 209
Retrieving the Weather Report 211
Presenting the Weather 214
Temperature Units 217
Testing the App in a Simulator 218
Summary 221
Index 222