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

It’s true: you can build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone with C# and the .NET Framework–with help from MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This hands-on guide shows you how to reuse one codebase across all three platforms by combining the business logic layer of your C# app with separate, fully native UIs. It’s an ideal marriage of platform-specific development and the “write once, run everywhere” philosophy.
By building a series of simple applications, you’ll experience the advantages of using .NET in mobile development and learn how to write complete apps that access the unique features of today’s three most important mobile platforms.

• Learn the building blocks for building applications on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone
• Discover how the Mono tools interact with iOS and Android
• Use several techniques and patterns for maximizing non-UI code reuse
• Determine how much functionality 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

这是真的：在MonoTouch和Mono for Android的帮助下，你可以使用C#和.NET框架为iOS、Android和Windows Phone构建本地应用程序。本实践指南向您展示了如何通过将C#应用程序的业务逻辑层与独立的、完全原生的UI相结合，在所有三个平台上重用一个代码库。它是特定于平台的开发和一次编写、随处运行理念的理想结合。
通过构建一系列简单的应用程序，您将体验在移动开发中使用.NET的优势，并学习如何编写完整的应用程序来访问当今三个最重要的移动平台的独特功能。

• 了解在iOS、Android和Windows Phone上构建应用程序的构建块
• 了解Mono工具如何与iOS和Android交互
• 使用多种技术和模式最大化非用户界面代码重用
• 确定共享业务逻辑层可以包含多少功能
• 利用.NET丰富的网络堆栈连接到外部资源
• 使用每个平台的文件系统和本地数据库读写数据
• 创建应用程序以探索平台的位置和地图功能