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7. Building Cross-Platform Apps with Xamarin.Forms

Alessandro Del Sole1 

(1)Cremona, Italy

In Chapters 5 and 6, you saw how to create native apps for Android and iOS using the Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS flavors with C# and Visual Studio for Mac. In both cases, you create solutions that rely on platform-specific ways to design the user interface and that provide full access to the operating system’s APIs through their libraries, which are certainly different from one another.

Though both Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS are powerful, there are situations where your apps do not leverage platform-specific APIs (or at least very ...

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