Xamarin in Action

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Introducing native cross-platform applications with Xamarin

Figure 1.1. A comparison of the different mobile-development platforms

Figure 1.2. Vendor-specific apps use the same language for all layers but different languages on each platform

Figure 1.3. Cordova apps: HTML/CSS/JavaScript for the UI and business logic wrapped into an app by the Cordova framework.

Figure 1.4. Xamarin apps are written in C#, so you can share common business logic and also have platform-specific UIs.

Figure 1.5. Xamarin.iOS uses an ahead-of-time compiler.

Figure 1.6. Xamarin Android uses a Just-in-time compiler and a Mono runtime.

Figure 1.7. Xamarin.Forms apps have a cross-platform UI to share even more code.

Figure 1.8. Visual Studio ...