Chapter 5. XamChat for iOS
In this chapter, we will develop the iOS portion of our cross-platform XamChat application. Since we are using the MVVM design pattern, most of the work we will be doing will be in the View layer of the application. We will mainly be working with native iOS APIs and understanding how we can apply them leverage the shared code in our portable class library. Since Xamarin.iOS enables us to call Apple APIs directly, our iOS app will be indistinguishable from an application developed in Objective-C or Swift.
To begin writing the iOS version of XamChat, create a new Single View Application under the iOS section. Name the project XamChat.iOS or some other appropriate name of your choice. The project template will automatically ...
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