Mobile Development with C#: Building Native iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Applications - Greg Shackles

Learn how to build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone using C# and the .NET Framework, along with MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This guide demonstrates how to reuse one codebase across all three platforms, combining the business logic layer of your C# app with separate, fully native UIs. Through building simple applications, you'll experience the advantages of using .NET in mobile development and learn to write complete apps that access the unique features of these important mobile platforms.

• Discover the building blocks for building applications on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone
• Understand how the Mono tools interact with iOS and Android
• Maximize non-UI code reuse using various techniques and patterns
• Determine the functionality that can go into the shared business logic layer
• Connect to external resources with .NET's rich networking stack
• Read and write data using each platform's filesystem and local database
• Create apps to explore the platforms' location and mapping capabilities

Author: Shackles, Greg
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Mobile Development with C#: Building Native iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Applications
Pages: 00174 (Unencrypted )
On Sale: 2012-05-07
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781449320232
Category: Computers : Programming Languages - C#