Cross Platform Development with Xamarin - Portable Class Libraries and ASP.NET Razor Templating

My training on Cross Platform Development with Xamarin w/ Portable Class Libraries and ASP.NET Razor Templating is now available online from Learn Now Online.  The url is: http://www.learnnowonline.com/course/cpx1/xamarin-cross-platform-pcl-and-razor

Course description

In this course we’ll cover cross platform mobile development using Xamarin. First we’ll cover Portable class libraries (PCLs). PCLs are tools provide .NET developers a way to share code between platforms with one library. PCLs help developers reduce the time and costs of development and testing code. With a PCL project, one library can be used by multiple platforms. Then we’ll move onto Mobile web apps. Mobile web apps are a very popular mechanism to target mobile devices. Unfortunately, there are times that a mobile web app cannot access device specific features. Xamarin provides a mechanism to host an ASP.NET MVC Razor Web Template/Page within a native application. This provides the cross platform capabilities of the web while still allowing applications to access native features of device.

I hope that you enjoy the course as well as my others at LNO. 

Course outline

Compilation (42:37)

• Introduction (00:18)
• .Net Compilation (01:33)
• iOS Compilation (02:32)
• Android Compilation (03:10)
• API Support - Two Platforms (02:09)
• API Support - Three Platforms (01:04)
• Solution (02:04)
• Benefits (01:40)
• Disadvantages (01:09)
• Platforms Supported (01:59)
• Feature Support (00:38)
• Nuget (02:08)
• Supported Platforms (00:47)
• IDE Support (01:39)
• Demo: Create PCLs - Create (03:58)
• Demo: Create PCLs - Nuget (04:04)
• Demo: Creating PCLs - Detail (04:27)
• Demo: Create PCLs - Android (06:42)
• Summary (00:27)

VB and Info (13:50)

• Introduction (00:25)
• Visual Basic Support (01:20)
• Demo: VB PCL Project (04:40)
• Compared to File Linking (02:12)
• Issues (02:32)
• Licensing (01:06)
• Urls of Interest (00:33)
• Previous Courses (00:30)
• Summary (00:26)

Web in the UI (14:44)

• Introduction (00:26)
• Agenda (01:06)
• Mobile Web (02:30)
• Problem (01:45)
• Solution (01:02)
• Initial Setup (02:20)
• Demo: Mobile Web - iOS (02:21)
• Demo: Mobile Web - Android (02:48)
• Summary (00:23)

Razor Templating (27:08)

• Introduction (00:24)
• ASP.NET Razor Template (01:03)
• Initial Concept (01:17)
• General Concept (00:50)
• Pass Data In (00:38)
• Add Files - iPhone (01:11)
• Add Files - Android (00:51)
• Pull Data Out (01:40)
• Android - Call C# from JS (01:20)
• Demo: Razor Template – iOS (04:48)
• Demo: Data Pullback (04:24)
• Demo: Loading Local Content (01:18)
• Demo: Razor Template – Android (03:21)
• Demo: Load Data (03:26)
• Summary (00:28)