Mastering Xamarin.Forms

I love seasoned developer-centric books like this. I know C# like the back of my hand but have never used Xamarin and that's exactly who this book is for. This is no introduction to C#, development concepts or object oriented programming, look elsewhere to get up to speed on those concepts first. But if you're an able C# developer this book rules for getting up to speed quickly on Xamarin. There is minimal overview and tons of "let's just do it" chapters. I'm amazed how quickly I was up and running with a functional cross-platform app. Yes, you have to look up anything you don't understand elsewhere, just keep a web browser handy. I had to get up to speed on dependency injection and unit testing which were new to me, but easy enough to comprehend. Again, not for newbies by any means but a great book if you know C# and basic OO already.My only complaint and it's nit picky is I wish the downloadable code had snapshots for each chapter. The code you download is as of the end of the book and the code evolves considerably over the course of the book so cutting and pasting becomes tricky early on if you want to avoid typing in some of the lengthier sections. You can cut and paste from the Kindle edition for a while, but eventually you run out of chances as the publisher sets a cut and past limit.Still highly recommended.Jeff

Samples don't work with Visual Studio. This seems to specific to MacOS development with Xamarin Studio. Would love to have given 5 stars. The book is lean and to the point, but still leaves me struggling to get off the ground with Xamarin development.

So maybe you know some c#. Maybe you used to do WPF or Silverlight, and are looking to start working on the mobile platforms. Maybe you know iOS or Android and are looking at this cross-platform thing. Or maybe you are like me and know "Classic Xamarin" pretty well and have been looking for an excuse to learn Xamarin Forms. Well, look no further.There is a ton of information out there on the internet about Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms - and programming in general. Most of it us uncurated, so I typically turn to a book to get a head start. On this topic, I read the introductory book (Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms by Petzold) and found it to be a bit too introductory for me. This book however was great at taking some of the patterns we all know and love (like navigation, and MVVM) and showing how to execute them in real world examples. Exactly what I needed to get proficient quickly. It will be a good reference to have on the shelf.

Limited information, but useful.

As Xamarin grows in popularity, new books on Xamarin (especially Xamarin.Forms) are hard to come by as each of the platforms are changing rapidly, as is Xamarin. Ed Snider, who I've known as a Xamarin MVP in my region for quite a while now, excels as a developer, public speaker, community leader and technical author.I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to master Xamarin.Forms! :-DShahed ChowdhuriSr. Technical Evangelist @ Microsoft

This book was exactly what I was looking for. It gets into the meat of things quite quickly, which is nice to get a feel for the capabilities of Xamarin.forms.

Author definitely knows what he is talking about.

Ich glaube, es ist sehr schwer ein Buch für Entwickler zu schreiben, da jeder etwas anderes erwartet und sehen / lesen will und jeder auch noch anders Dinge aufnimmt und lernt.Das Buch ist inhaltlich gut bis sehr gut, gut und verständlich geschrieben.Für mich ist es an einigen Stellen nicht ausführlich genug und an anderen ...

The book is good for beginners especially when you are early in your learning stage of Xamarin Forms. It covers all the basic aspects and has some decent examples to try it yourself. I bought this when I first started learning Xamarin and this was just 1 of the 3 books I referred initially and it was very helpful.

Good book

Waste