What this book covers

Chapter 1, The Anatomy of an Android App, provides an overview of the Android platform and what Android apps are composed of.

Chapter 2, The Xamarin.Android Architecture, provides an overview of the Xamarin platforms and describes how the Mono and Android runtime work together in order to allow developers to build Android apps using C#.

Chapter 3, Creating the Points of Interest App, walks you through how to set up the development environment, create a new Xamarin.Android app, and run the app in the Android emulator.

Chapter 4, Adding a List View, describes Android's AdapterView architecture and walks you through how to use ListView and create a custom adapter. This chapter also covers how to download the data asynchronously from a web service and display the response on a custom ListView.

Chapter 5, Adding a Details View, walks you through how to create a details view to display the details of POIApp, add navigation from ListView, and add actions to perform the save and delete web service operations.

Chapter 6, Making Your App Orientation-aware, walks you through how to detect the device orientation and handle application behaviors on the configuration changes.

Chapter 7, Designing for Multiple Screen Sizes, introduces you to the Android fragments and the different techniques used for managing the resources and layout to support multiple screen sizes, including Android tablets.

Chapter 8, Creating Data Storage Mechanisms, discusses a number of available data storage options in Xamarin.Android and stores the Point of Interest list fetched from a web service using the SQLite database engine to make the list accessible when a device is offline.

Chapter 9, Making POIApp Location Aware, discusses the various options that developers have in order to make their apps location-aware, and this chapter also covers how to add logic to determine a device's location, the address of a location, and display a location in the map app.

Chapter 10, Adding the Camera App Integration, discusses the various options for integrating with a device camera to capture a picture of POIApp and upload the captured photo to a web service using the HTTP multipart form upload.

Chapter 11, Publishing an App to the App Store, discusses the various options for distributing Android apps and also covers how to prepare a Xamarin.Android app for distribution.