Chapter 2. Building a SpeechTalk Application

In this chapter, we introduce development with Xamarin.Forms. We will build a cross-platform application for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone that integrates native platform speech services to speak text typed from a text field.

Expected knowledge:

• Microsoft Visual Studio.

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

• Cross-platform development with Xamarin.Forms
• Setting up platform projects
• Setting up a SpeechTalk.iOS project
• Setting up a SpeechTalk.Droid project
• Xamarin.Forms, Windows Phone, and Visual Studio
• Inversion of Control (IoC) with Xamarin.Forms
• AutoFac
• iOS text-to-speech implementation
• Bindings
• Android text-to-speech implementation
• Setting up IoC with Android
• WinPhone text-to-speech implementation
• IoC with Windows Phone
• Platform-independent styling