Xamarin.Forms Notes for Professionals book

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Chapter 1: Getting started with Xamarin.Forms
	Section 1.1: Installation (Visual Studio)
	Section 1.2: Hello World Xamarin Forms: Visual Studio
Chapter 2: Why Xamarin Forms and When to use Xamarin Forms
	Section 2.1: Why Xamarin Forms and When to use Xamarin Forms
Chapter 3: Xamarin Forms Layouts
	Section 3.1: AbsoluteLayout
	Section 3.2: Grid
	Section 3.3: ContentPresenter
	Section 3.4: ContentView
	Section 3.5: ScrollView
	Section 3.6: Frame
	Section 3.7: TemplatedView
	Section 3.8: RelativeLayout
	Section 3.9: StackLayout
Chapter 4: Xamarin Relative Layout
	Section 4.1: Box after box
	Section 4.2: Page with an simple label on the middle
Chapter 5: Navigation in Xamarin.Forms
	Section 5.1: NavigationPage flow with XAML
	Section 5.2: NavigationPage flow
	Section 5.3: Master Detail Navigation
	Section 5.4: Using INavigation from view model
	Section 5.5: Master Detail Root Page
	Section 5.6: Hierarchical navigation with XAML
	Section 5.7: Modal navigation with XAML
Chapter 6: Xamarin.Forms Page
	Section 6.1: TabbedPage
	Section 6.2: ContentPage
	Section 6.3: MasterDetailPage
Chapter 7: Xamarin.Forms Cells
	Section 7.1: EntryCell
	Section 7.2: SwitchCell
	Section 7.3: TextCell
	Section 7.4: ImageCell
	Section 7.5: ViewCell
Chapter 8: Xamarin.Forms Views
	Section 8.1: Button
	Section 8.2: DatePicker
	Section 8.3: Entry
	Section 8.4: Editor
	Section 8.5: Image
	Section 8.6: Label
Chapter 9: Using ListViews
	Section 9.1: Pull to Refresh in XAML and Code behind
Chapter 10: Display Alert
	Section 10.1: DisplayAlert
	Section 10.2: Alert Example with only one button and action
Chapter 11: Accessing native features with DependencyService
	Section 11.1: Implementing text-to-speech
	Section 11.2: Getting Application and Device OS Version Numbers - Android & iOS - PCL
Chapter 12: DependencyService
	Section 12.1: Android implementation
	Section 12.2: Interface
	Section 12.3: iOS implementation
	Section 12.4: Shared code
Chapter 13: Custom Renderers
	Section 13.1: Accessing renderer from a native project
	Section 13.2: Rounded label with a custom renderer for Frame (PCL & iOS parts)
	Section 13.3: Custom renderer for ListView
	Section 13.4: Custom Renderer for BoxView
	Section 13.5: Rounded BoxView with selectable background color
Chapter 14: Caching
	Section 14.1: Caching using Akavache
Chapter 15: Gestures
	Section 15.1: Make an Image tappable by adding a TapGestureRecognizer
	Section 15.2: Gesture Event
	Section 15.3: Zoom an Image with the Pinch gesture
	Section 15.4: Show all of the zoomed Image content with the PanGestureRecognizer
	Section 15.5: Tap Gesture
	Section 15.6: Place a pin where the user touched the screen with MR.Gestures
Chapter 16: Data Binding
	Section 16.1: Basic Binding to ViewModel
Chapter 17: Working with Maps
	Section 17.1: Adding a map in Xamarin.Forms (Xamarin Studio)
Chapter 18: Custom Fonts in Styles
	Section 18.1: Accessing custom Fonts in Syles
Chapter 19: Push Notifications
	Section 19.1: Push notifications for Android with Azure
	Section 19.2: Push notifications for iOS with Azure
	Section 19.3: iOS Example
Chapter 20: Eects
	Section 20.1: Adding platform specific Eect for an Entry control
Chapter 21: Triggers & Behaviours
	Section 21.1: Xamarin Forms Trigger Example
	Section 21.2: Multi Triggers
Chapter 22: AppSettings Reader in Xamarin.Forms
	Section 22.1: Reading app.config file in a Xamarin.Forms Xaml project
Chapter 23: Creating custom controls
	Section 23.1: Label with bindable collection of Spans
	Section 23.2: Implementing a CheckBox Control
	Section 23.3: Create an Xamarin Forms custom input control (no native required)
	Section 23.4: Creating a custom Entry control with a MaxLength property
	Section 23.5: Creating custom Button
Chapter 24: Working with local databases
	Section 24.1: Using SQLite.NET in a Shared Project
	Section 24.2: Working with local databases using xamarin.forms in visual studio 2015
Chapter 25: CarouselView - Pre-release version
	Section 25.1: Import CarouselView
	Section 25.2: Import CarouselView into a XAML Page
Chapter 26: Exception handling
	Section 26.1: One way to report about exceptions on iOS
Chapter 27: SQL Database and API in Xamarin Forms.
	Section 27.1: Create API using SQL database and implement in Xamarin forms,
Chapter 28: Contact Picker - Xamarin Forms (Android and iOS)
	Section 28.1: contact_picker.cs
	Section 28.2: MyPage.cs
	Section 28.3: ChooseContactPicker.cs
	Section 28.4: ChooseContactActivity.cs
	Section 28.5: MainActivity.cs
	Section 28.6: ChooseContactRenderer.cs
Chapter 29: Xamarin Plugin
	Section 29.1: Media Plugin
	Section 29.2: Share Plugin
	Section 29.3: ExternalMaps
	Section 29.4: Geolocator Plugin
	Section 29.5: Messaging Plugin
	Section 29.6: Permissions Plugin
Chapter 30: OAuth2
	Section 30.1: Authentication by using Plugin
Chapter 31: MessagingCenter
	Section 31.1: Simple example
	Section 31.2: Passing arguments
	Section 31.3: Unsubscribing
Chapter 32: Generic Xamarin.Forms app lifecycle? Platform-dependant!
	Section 32.1: Xamarin.Forms lifecycle is not the actual app lifecycle but a cross-platform representation of it
Chapter 33: Platform-specific behaviour
	Section 33.1: Removing icon in navigation header in Anroid
	Section 33.2: Make label\'s font size smaller in iOS
Chapter 34: Platform specific visual adjustments
	Section 34.1: Idiom adjustments
	Section 34.2: Platform adjustments
	Section 34.3: Using styles
	Section 34.4: Using custom views
Chapter 35: Dependency Services
	Section 35.1: Access Camera and Gallery
Chapter 36: Unit Testing
	Section 36.1: Testing the view models
Chapter 37: BDD Unit Testing in Xamarin.Forms
	Section 37.1: Simple Specflow to test commands and navigation with NUnit Test Runner
	Section 37.2: Advanced Usage for MVVM
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