Xamarin Mobile Development for Android Cookbook

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Credits

About the Author

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Working with Xamarin.Android

Introduction

Creating Xamarin.Android projects

Creating user interface layouts

Creating an options menu

Supporting previous Android versions

Adding an action bar

Navigating with the action bar

Adding action bar action items

Creating contextual action mode menu

Creating contextual action mode menus

Sharing code with other platforms

Chapter 2. Showing Views and Handling Fragments

Introduction

Using custom views with layouts

Creating and using fragments

Preserving view and fragment state

Navigating between fragments

Fragments and the action bar

Animating fragment navigation

Animating view and object properties

Animating views on the UI

Adding a navigation drawer with fragments

Applying local styles and global themes

Chapter 3. Managing App Data

Introduction

Storing data with SharedPreferences

Using files and the filesystem

Reading bundled assets and resources

Parsing processing and generating XML

Accessing data with ADO.NET

Accessing data with SQLite.NET

Encrypting databases with SQLCipher

Consuming content providers

Creating content providers

Backing up preferences and files to the cloud

Backing up data to the cloud

Chapter 4. Presenting App Data

Introduction

Implementing a ListView

Using a SimpleAdapter

Using custom ListView items

Using a BaseAdapter with arbitrary data

Using a CursorAdapter

Optimizing the ListView

Enabling fast scrolling

Using section indexes

Integrating app searchability

Chapter 5. Communicating with the Outside World

Introduction

Consuming REST services with HttpClient

Obtaining a network state

Handling network state changes

Using DownloadManager

Accessing Bluetooth

Transferring data via Bluetooth

Receiving NFC events

Writing NFC tags

Transferring data via NFC

Obtaining location coordinates and addresses

Chapter 6. Using Background Tasks

Introduction

Asynchronous tasks

Starting services

Stopping services

Handling simultaneous service requests

Starting services automatically

Communicating with running services

Critical services

Chapter 7. Notifying Users

Introduction

Toasts

Alert dialogs

Alert fragments

Embedded alert fragments

Selection alerts

The notification builder

Ongoing notifications

Custom notification views

Push notifications

Chapter 8. Interacting with Other Apps

Introduction

Starting app components

Launching other apps

Obtaining data from activities

Using BroadcastReceivers