Xamarin Studio for Android Programming: A C# Cookbook

Book Description

Over 110 hands-on recipes to help you get grips with Xamarin Studio and C# programming to develop market-ready Android applications

About This Book

• Create Android applications with C# and Xamarin
• Reuse your Android application to develop iOS and Windows Phone applications
• Leverage the easy-to-succeed recipes to exploit the latest Android releases and develop new applications

Who This Book Is For

If you have already developed an Android applications with Java and you now intend to use C# and Xamarin Studio’s capabilities, or if you have never taken the dive into mobiles, then this book is for you. It would be helpful to have some C# experience so you follow the recipes in this book, though knowledge of Android is not required.

What You Will Learn

• Build a GUI for your Android applications
• Explore Android activities and understand configuration changes
• Manage multiscreens, icons, and multimedia in your applications
• Start and bind Android services and create notifications
• Create beautiful applications using the camera and animations
• Effectively couple your phone’s hardware with applications
• Integrate advertisements and select the right advertisement providers for your applications

In Detail

Multiplatform applications have taken the development world by storm. This has revolutionized the selection of the right tools for the efficient development and deployment of applications. Xamarin studio is emerging as the preferred choice among .NET/C# developers. It enables them to design cross-platform applications using their favorite language and IDE. Xamarin studio is supported by the Mac OS and Windows platforms, and you can develop your own applications for iOS, Windows, or Android with its help.

This book takes you through all the stages of application development, right from getting started with Xamarin and developing a GUI to putting up your application on the store. The recipes will help you in acquiring sufficient knowledge to go about creating applications.

Starting with introducing Xamarin studio, its underlying technologies, and the Android ecosystem, the book goes on to cover the graphical aspects of creating Android applications. Moving on, you will learn more about data management with Android services. This is followed by techniques on how to interact with the Android OS and the phone’s hardware, before finally concluding with mobile advertisements and Google Play. By the end of this book, you will have discovered all the specialties related to developing Android application with Xamarin Studio.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Mastering the Life and Death of Android Apps
Chapter 3: Building a GUI
Chapter 4: Using Android Resources
Chapter 5: Using On-Phone Data
Chapter 6: Populating Your GUI with Data
Chapter 7: Using Android Services
Chapter 8: Mastering Intents – A Walkthrough
Chapter 9: Playing with Advanced Graphics
Chapter 10: Taking Advantage of the Android Platform
Chapter 11: Using Hardware Interactions
Chapter 12: Debugging and Testing
Chapter 13: Monetizing and Publishing Your Applications

中文：

书名：Xamarin Studio for Android编程：C#食谱

超过110个动手食谱，帮助您掌握Xamarin Studio和C#编程，以开发市场就绪的Android应用程序

关于本书

• 用C#和Xamarin创建Android应用程序
• 重用您的Android应用程序来开发iOS和Windows Phone应用程序
• 利用易于成功的配方来利用最新的Android版本并开发新的应用程序

这本书是为谁写的

如果你已经用Java开发了Android应用程序，并且现在打算使用C#和Xamarin Studio的功能，或者如果你从未尝试过手机，那么这本书是为你而写的。有一些C#经验会很有帮助，这样你就可以遵循本书中的食谱，尽管不需要Android的知识。

What You Will Learn

• Build a GUI for your Android applications
• 探索Android活动并了解配置更改
• 在您的应用程序中管理多屏幕、图标和多媒体
• 启动和绑定Android服务并创建通知
• 使用摄像头和动画创建漂亮的应用程序
• 有效地将您的手机硬件与应用程序相结合
• 整合广告并为您的应用程序选择合适的广告提供商

详细地说

多平台应用程序在开发领域掀起了一场风暴。这彻底改变了为有效开发和部署应用程序选择正确工具的方式。Xamarin工作室正在成为.NET/C#开发人员的首选。它使他们能够使用他们最喜欢的语言和IDE设计跨平台应用程序。Xamarin Studio受到Mac OS和Windows平台的支持，您可以在它的帮助下为iOS、Windows或Android开发自己的应用程序。

这本书将带您经历应用程序开发的所有阶段，从开始使用Xamarin和开发图形用户界面到将您的应用程序放到商店中。这些食谱将帮助您获得创建应用程序所需的足够知识。

这本书从介绍Xamarin Studio、其底层技术和Android生态系统开始，接着介绍了创建Android应用程序的图形方面。接下来，您将了解更多关于使用Android服务进行数据管理的知识。紧随其后的是如何与Android操作系统和手机硬件互动的技巧，最后是手机广告和Google Play。在本书结束时，您将发现与使用Xamarin Studio开发Android应用程序相关的所有专业。

目录表

第1章：入门
第二章：掌握安卓应用的生死
第3章：构建图形用户界面
Chapter 4: Using Android Resources
第5章：使用电话上的数据
Chapter 6: Populating Your GUI with Data
第7章：使用Android服务
第8章：掌握意图-演练
第9章：使用高级图形
第十章：充分利用Android平台
Chapter 11: Using Hardware Interactions
Chapter 12: Debugging and Testing
第13章：盈利和发布您的应用程序