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Free ebook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms

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Microsoft Press, in cooperation with Xamarin, is pleased to publish a new ebook by legendary author Charles Petzold: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Cross-platform C# programming for iOS, Android, and Windows. 002-PDFbutton 002-epubbutton 002-Mobibutton

This is the third version of an ebook about writing applications with Xamarin.Forms, the mobile development platform for iOS, Android, and Windows unveiled by Xamarin in May 2014. (The first two versions of this book were Preview Editions.) Xamarin.Forms lets you write shared user-interface code in C# and XAML (the Extensible Application Markup Language) that maps to native controls on these platforms.

The Windows support of Xamarin.Forms includes the Windows Runtime (WinRT) for targeting Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices, and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which is a form of the Windows Runtime that targets Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile devices with a single program.

The two previous versions of this book were called Preview Editions because they were not complete. At 1200 pages, this is the first edition that can claim to be complete, even though several topics are not included and Xamarin.Forms continues to be progressively enhanced with no sign of slowing down.

Who should read this book

This book is for C# programmers who want to write applications using a single code base that targets the three most popular mobile platforms: iOS, Android, and Windows, encompassing the Universal Windows Platform and Windows Phone.

Xamarin.Forms also has applicability for those programmers who eventually want to use C# and the Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android libraries to target the native application programming interfaces (APIs) of these platforms. Xamarin.Forms can be a big help in getting programmers started with these platforms or in constructing a prototype or proof-of-concept application.

This book assumes that you know C# and are familiar with the use of the .NET Framework. However, when Charles discusses some C# and .NET features that might be somewhat exotic or unfamiliar to recent C# programmers, he adopts a somewhat slower pace.

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  • Anonymous
    April 01, 2016
    Thank you Charles for writing it and microsoft for helping Xamarin to make it available. And thank you Kim for telling us about it.
  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2016
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    • Anonymous
      March 09, 2017
      I 2nd her message to you Charles.
  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2016
    Thanks a lot.I love This Microsoft's Job
  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2016
    thank you
  • Anonymous
    April 11, 2016
    Thank you Kim for making this available, and also big thanks to Charles for taking the time to write this wisdom on the "paper". I would really like to see this platform is adopted by many developers as it would benefit the platform itself.
  • Anonymous
    April 12, 2016
    Thank you. Good job!
  • Anonymous
    April 13, 2016
    Thank you...
  • Anonymous
    April 20, 2016
    Thank you! I'm inquisitively looking foreword to read the ebook.
  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2016
    an invent developer
  • Anonymous
    April 27, 2016
    Thank you very much! Nice job Charles and Kim for posting the pdf
  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2016
    Norton doesnt allow me to download this file :(can someone email the pdf for me ?? :DTnx
    • Anonymous
      February 14, 2017
      What is your E-mail Address, I will post it to you.
      • Anonymous
        August 08, 2017
        pls send me pdf file of this book
  • Anonymous
    May 12, 2016
    test
  • Anonymous
    May 26, 2016
    tkank you very much.!
  • Anonymous
    June 11, 2016
    Is a paper book version to come ?
    • Anonymous
      June 13, 2016
      Hi Alain -We have no plans to print this book.
  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2016
    The comment has been removed
  • Anonymous
    July 01, 2016
    kindle version is too large to transfer to kindle for androidkindly make the app available on amazon store for download
  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2016
    Thanks for the great resources for students!
  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2016
    Thank you for posting the book
  • Anonymous
    July 27, 2016
    thank you so much charles.
  • Anonymous
    August 08, 2016
    Thanks Charles for sharing this useful book.
  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2016
    Thanks for this book
  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2016
    //I appreciate for sharing this valuable knowledge for free..I am in debt to Xamarin and Microsoft. Lets work to build great Apps and pay it back.The book is amazing.
  • Anonymous
    November 08, 2016
    Sorry guys, but I would never recommend this book to anyone, especially for new-starters It's 1200 pages but it's too bloated with information which would be better to read in official documentation. And accents it makes are irrelevant in most mobile apps. It focuses on writing pages in C# instead of XAML. But in most cases apps are usually written in XAML because it's simpler to mantain, it's less verbose than C#, it's just de-facto standard on Windows platform so .net devs are quite familiar with it, even if they are not - most likely they are familiar with HTML and XAML has a lot of common. The book doesn't tell how to better organize the app, how to build better navigation, etc. It only lists the options, but all those options are available in the documentation.I really appreciate the effort, but sorry, it doesn't look like a book written by Mobile developer for Mobile developers. If you want to learn fast I better recommend search for Xamarin.Forms video series by Houssem Dellai.
  • Anonymous
    November 16, 2016
    From Russia with Love)Can you translate this book in Russian?
  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2017
    Kim, Could I translate this book in Korean on my blog?it is not commercial. it is just for studying.I'll thank you for your answer
    • Anonymous
      January 04, 2017
      Our distributor, Pearson, owns the rights to translate our free ebooks. You will need to email them and ask for permission. You can email them here: rights@pearsoned.com
  • Anonymous
    February 08, 2017
    we are pleased to thank u for posting this article , good job Charles,
  • Anonymous
    February 13, 2017
    Great book. Just a small correction. On page 324 a few times "because" should be "became".
  • Anonymous
    February 14, 2017
    Is this book has a Simplified Chinese edition? I want it very much.
  • Anonymous
    February 22, 2017
    Will this book have a simplified Chinese edition in the future?I would like to read and learn very much.
  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2017
    Thanks, This was Helpful
  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2017
    Thank you.
  • Anonymous
    March 16, 2017
    Thank you for sharing
  • Anonymous
    April 19, 2017
    Thanks
  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2017
    Please i am front end developer, i want to learn how to build mobile apps front end designs with xamrin. so i need advice on what to do?