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    iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook
    iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook
    iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook
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    iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook

    By Dimitris Tavlikos

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    The book is written in a recipe format with practical examples, allowing you to go directly to your topic of interest or follow topics throughout a chapter to gain an indepth knowledge. There are also plenty of hints and best practices along the way. If you are a C#/.NET developer with no previous experience in iOS development or an ObjectiveC developer who wants to create complete iOS applications and deploy them to the App Store, then this book is ideal for you. No experience with Xamarin is needed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 23, 2014
    ISBN9781783550005
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      iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook - Dimitris Tavlikos

      Table of Contents

      iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

      Why subscribe?

      Free access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Development Tools

      Introduction

      Installing prerequisites

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      Xcode

      Interface Builder

      iOS Simulator

      There's more...

      Useful links

      Updates

      See also

      Creating an iOS project with Xamarin Studio

      Getting ready...

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      MyFirstiOSProjectViewController.xib

      MyFirstiOSProjectViewController.cs

      MyFirstiOSProjectViewController.designer.cs

      AppDelegate.cs

      Main.cs

      Info.plist

      There's more...

      List of Xamarin.iOS assemblies

      See also

      Interface Builder

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      More information

      See also

      Creating the UI

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      Adding a label

      Adding a button

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Setting titles on Buttons

      See also

      Accessing the UI with Outlets

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Adding Outlets through code

      See also

      Adding Actions to controls

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Compiling an iOS project

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      iOS build options

      iOS application options

      There's more...

      See also

      Debugging our application

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      App performance when debugging

      Breakpoints in FinishedLaunching

      See also

      2. User Interface – Views

      Introduction

      Adding and customizing views

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Adding views programmatically

      View content layout

      See also

      Receiving user input with buttons

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Changing the appearance of buttons

      See also

      Displaying images

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Using images for different screen sizes

      See also

      Displaying and editing text

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Using the keyboard

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Displaying progress

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      UIProgressView height

      See also

      Displaying content larger than the screen

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      UIScrollView events

      See also

      Navigating through the content divided into pages

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Proper usage of UIPageControl

      See also

      Displaying alerts

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Creating a custom view

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Styling views

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works…

      There's more…

      Limitations of UIAppearance

      See also

      3. User Interface – View Controllers

      Introduction

      Loading a view with a view controller

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      UIViewController methods to override

      See also

      Navigating through different view controllers

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Managing navigation bar buttons

      See also

      Providing controllers in tabs

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Useful UITabBarController properties

      Determining tab selection

      See also

      Modal view controllers

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Accessing a modal controller

      How many modal controllers?

      See also

      Creating a custom view controller

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Using view controllers efficiently

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      iPad view controllers

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works...

      There's more...

      iPad-specific controller usage

      See also

      UI flow design with storyboards

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Passing data

      See also

      Unwinding in storyboards

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works…

      There's more…

      Where is the unwind segue in the storyboard?

      See also

      4. Data Management

      Introduction

      Creating files

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works...

      There's more...

      The Documents folder

      The Caches folder

      See also

      Using a SQLite database

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      SQL table creation

      See also

      Preparing for iCloud support

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      iCloud key/value storage

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Getting notified on key/value store changes

      See also

      5. Displaying Data

      Introduction

      Providing lists

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      More UIPickerView customization

      Date and time selection

      See also

      Displaying data in a table

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      The UITableView styles

      The UITableViewCell styles

      See also

      Customizing rows

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Useful properties of the UITableViewCell class

      UINib class

      Adding content programmatically

      See also

      Editing a table

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Enabling editing modes for individual rows

      See also

      Table indexing

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Searching through the data

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Creating a simple web browser

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Scaling the content

      UIWebView supported files

      Displaying data in a grid

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      More information on UICollectionView

      See also

      Customizing the grid

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      6. Web Services

      Introduction

      Consuming web services

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Invoking web service methods asynchronously

      The XSP shutdown

      See also

      Consuming REST services

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Communicating with native APIs

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works…

      There's more…

      Synchronous NSUrlConnection

      Usability

      See also

      Using WCF services

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      More information on Xamarin Studio's WCF support

      WCF service creation

      See also

      7. Multimedia Resources

      Introduction

      Selecting images and videos

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Picking videos

      See also

      Capturing media with the camera

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Image editing

      See also

      Playing videos

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Wireless streaming

      See also

      Playing music and sounds

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Playing sound files

      See also

      Recording with the microphone

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Recording for a predefined amount of time

      See also

      Managing album items directly

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Reading EXIF data

      Retrieving individual assets

      Checking for permission

      See also

      8. Integrating iOS Features

      Introduction

      Starting phone calls

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      More information on OpenUrl

      See also

      Sending text messages and e-mails

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      More information on opening external apps

      See also

      Using text messaging in our application

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Attachments

      Using e-mail messaging in our application

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Managing the address book

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Adding a phone number to a contact

      Displaying contacts

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Other address book controllers

      See also

      Managing the calendar

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Reminders

      See also

      9. Interacting with Device Hardware

      Introduction

      Detecting the device orientation

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      The device orientation and user interface orientation

      See also

      Adjusting the UI orientation

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      User interface orientation on child controllers

      See also

      Proximity sensor

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Retrieving the battery information

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Disabling battery monitoring

      See also

      Handling motion events

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      More information on motion events

      See also

      Handling touch events

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Getting the tap count

      See also

      Recognizing gestures

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      The advantage of gesture recognizers

      See also

      Custom gestures

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Another use of custom gesture recognizers

      See also

      Using the accelerometer

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Consideration when using the accelerometer

      See also

      Using the gyroscope

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Determining the availability of the gyroscope hardware

      Converting radians to degrees

      See also

      10. Location Services and Maps

      Introduction

      Determining location

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      GPS accuracy

      Location services availability

      Location services usage indicator

      See also

      Determining heading

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Magnetic vs true heading

      Compass availability

      See also

      Using region monitoring

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Region monitoring availability

      See also

      Using a significant-change location service

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Significant-change location service availability

      See also

      Location services in the background

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Restricting to supported hardware

      UI updates while in the background

      See also

      Displaying maps

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      Geocoding

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Things to have in mind for CLGeocoder

      Obsolete API

      See also

      Adding map annotations

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      An annotation's performance

      See also

      Adding map overlays

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Creating custom overlays

      Standard overlay objects

      See also

      11. Graphics and Animation

      Introduction

      Animating views

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Animatable properties

      Transforming views

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Transformation and Frame

      See also

      Animating images

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Checking for animation

      See also

      Animating layers

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Layers

      See also

      Drawing lines and curves

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Graphics context on a UIImageView class

      See also

      Drawing shapes

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Transparent colors

      See also

      Drawing text

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Size of the drawn text

      See also

      A simple drawing app

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Clear the drawing

      See also

      Creating an image context

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Drawing on UIImageView

      Background on saved drawings

      See also

      12. Multitasking

      Introduction

      Detecting application states

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Proper usage

      Receiving notifications for app states

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Removing notification observers

      See also

      Running code in the background

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Important considerations for the background code

      See also

      Playing audio in the background

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      The background state for audio

      See also

      Updating data in the background

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more

      UI updates

      See also

      13. Localization

      Introduction

      Creating an app for different languages

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Localization in real-world app scenarios

      The localizable.strings encoding

      Localizable resources

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      More information on localizable resources

      See also

      Regional formatting

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      14. Deploying

      Introduction

      Creating profiles

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Expiration of provisioning profiles

      See also

      Creating an ad hoc distribution bundle

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Syncing ad hoc app bundles with iTunes

      See also

      Preparing an app for the App Store

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      The 4-inch screen launch image

      See also

      Submitting an app to the App Store

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      See also

      15. Advanced Features

      Introduction

      Reproducing the page curl effect

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Double-sided pages

      Integrating content sharing

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Implementing custom transitions

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      Transitioning between child controllers

      See also

      Using physics in UI elements

      Getting ready

      How to do it...

      How it works...

      There's more...

      UIKit Dynamics usage

      Implementing the text-to-speech feature

      Getting ready

      How to do it…

      How it works…

      There's more...

      Adjusting the utterance

      Index

      iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook

      iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook

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      About the Author

      Dimitris Tavlikos is a freelance software developer living in Greece. With over 10 years of professional experience as a programmer, he specializes in mobile development with clients all over the world. Dimitris has a passion for programming, and has recently been awarded the Xamarin MVP designation for his work. He has written a book on iOS development and various articles on his blog.

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      Ryan Alford is a .NET software engineer who works from home. Ryan has been a .NET developer for over 7 years, with the majority of his focus being on C#. In his early years, he worked almost exclusively on WinForms and Windows Mobile. He then started working with ASP.Net, AJAX, and Silverlight. In the past few years, as mobile development really started to take off, he took an interest in Xamarin and MonoTouch.

      Ryan was able to help convince the management at his employer to use Xamarin for their upcoming enterprise application on iOS, as the company was using .Net and C# in other projects. It was at this point that Ryan was added to the three-person development team to write the new iOS enterprise application.

      Ryan has written and released two Android applications: MotoTorch LED and Phase 10 Score Center. MotoTorch LED has more than 500,000 downloads and was one of the first applications on Android that used the camera LEDs as a flashlight.

      Today, Ryan is currently rewriting Phase 10 Score Center in Xamarin.Android to ease the development of new features. He is still on his iOS team and continues to add new features to his company's enterprise application.

      Yaroslav Bigus is an expert in building cross-platform web and mobile applications. He has over 4 years experience in development and has worked for companies in Leeds and New York. He has been using the .NET Framework stack for developing backend systems, JavaScript for the frontend side, and Xamarin for mobile devices.

      He is now working for an Israeli startup called yRuler. Previously, Yaroslav reviewed Xamarin Mobile Application Development for iOS, Paul F. Johnson, Packt Publishing.

      I am thankful to my family and friends.

      William Smith has been developing with Xamarin Studio for over 3 years and has been developing software since 2001. He currently works as a Geospatial Developer at Geographic Information Services, Inc., specializing in mobile-platform development. He is also the founder of Websmiths, LLC (www.websmithsllc.com), a consulting firm that offers services in cross-platform mobile application development and web development. William holds two BSc degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Maryland.

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      Preface

      This book will provide you with all the necessary skills to develop and deploy rich and powerful applications for the iPhone and iPad, with the C# programming language. Xamarin.iOS, formerly known as MonoTouch, is already established as a powerful software development kit that brings iOS development to .NET programmers. Packed with easy-to-understand and detailed examples, this book will be your best companion in your iOS development journey.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Development Tools, teaches you how to install and use the development tools necessary to create your first iOS app. From there, you will create and debug your first Xamarin.iOS project.

      Chapter 2, User Interface – Views, discusses the essential User Interface components of the iOS SDK. Covering the most commonly used views and controls and many more in detail, we will get familiar with the platform through a number of example projects. We will also discuss the similarities and differences with standard .NET components.

      Chapter 3, User Interface – View Controllers, introduces you to the view controllers, the objects that are responsible for providing the interaction mechanism between your app and the user. Explained with simple step-by-step processes, you will start creating complete apps that can run on both the iPhone and iPad devices.

      Chapter 4, Data Management, covers data management practices available on the iOS platform and how to use them efficiently with the convenience of C#. You will learn to manage locale SQLite database files, but also work on using iCloud to store data across different devices.

      Chapter 5, Displaying Data, focuses on another important part of data management. Through a series of simple and complete projects, you will learn about the available components to display data on the screen of the iPhone, which are smaller than computer screens. Displaying various types of data in a user-friendly manner is essential for mobile devices, and by the time you finish reading this chapter, you will certainly be more skillful in this area.

      Chapter 6, Web Services, guides you through .NET SOAP, WCF, and REST services for creating apps that connect the user to the world. These powerful .NET features would not have been part of iOS development without Xamarin.iOS.

      Chapter 7, Multimedia Resources, will teach you to create applications that capture, reproduce, and manage multimedia content through the device's hardware. You will not only learn to use the camera to capture images and video, but also learn how to play back and record audio.

      Chapter 8, Integrating iOS Features, will walk you through the ways to incorporate the platform's native applications and components. You will learn how to provide e-mail, text messaging, and address book features in your application and how to use the native calendar to create events.

      Chapter 9, Interacting with Device Hardware, discusses creating applications that are fully aware of their surrounding environment through the device's sensors. You will learn to adjust the User Interface according to device orientations and respond to accelerometer and gyroscope events.

      Chapter 10, Location Services and Maps, is a detailed guide for using the built-in location services to create applications that provide location information to the user. You will not only learn to use the GPS hardware, but also how to display and layout information on maps.

      Chapter 11, Graphics and Animation, introduces 2D graphics and animation. You will learn to animate components and draw simple graphics on the screen. By the end of this chapter, you will create a small finger-drawing application.

      Chapter 12, Multitasking, will walk you through the details of implementing multitasking in iOS applications. This dramatically enhances the user experience by executing code behind the scenes.

      Chapter 13, Localization, discusses how to provide localized content in applications. You will learn how to prepare your application to target users worldwide.

      Chapter 14, Deploying, will not only walk you through the required steps to deploy your finished application to devices, but also to prepare and distribute it to the App Store.

      Chapter 15, Advanced Features, introduces some of the key features introduced in newer iOS versions, such as implementing physics to User Interface components through the power of iOS 7's UIKit Dynamics, customizing animated transitions between view controllers, and more!

      What you need for this book

      The minimum requirement for this book is a Mac computer running at least Mac OS X Lion (10.7.*). Almost all projects you will create with the help of this book work on iOS Simulator. However, some projects will require a device to work properly. You will find all the appropriate details in Chapter 1, Development Tools.

      Who this book is for

      This book is essential for C# and .NET developers with no previous experience in iOS development, but it is also for Objective-C developers who want to make a transition to the benefits of Xamarin.iOS and C# language to create complete, compelling iPhone, iPod, and iPad applications and deploy them to the App Store.

      Conventions

      In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

      Code words in text, cookbook names, recipe names, scripts, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, and pathnames are shown as follows: The Register attribute is used to expose classes to the underlying Objective-C runtime.

      A block of code is set as follows:

      using System;

      using System.Collections.Generic;

      using System.Linq;

      using MonoTouch.Foundation;

      using MonoTouch.UIKit;

      When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

      EKEvent newEvent = EKEvent.FromStore(evStore);

       

      newEvent.StartDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);

      newEvent.EndDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1.1);

      newEvent.Title = Xamarin event!;

      Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

      cd /CH06_code/WcfService/WcfService ./start_wcfservice.sh

      New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words you see on

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