Overview
- Includes real-time leader board examples
- Covers mobile app development for both iOS and Android
- Discusses creating SQL databases and Web API endpoints
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
Understanding Game Application Development starts by giving you an overview of the development tools, an installation guide, and a list of prerequisites. You will learn how to manage application flow, create your workspace, and set up your database. Next, you will see how to access data for handling CRUD operations and define the necessary API endpoints. Further, you will build a mobile application with Xamarin.Forms, both in iOS and in Android.
You will also understand the deployment and testing process as well as how to build a real-time leader boardusing ASP.NET MVC and SignalR. Finally, you will understand how to publish your source code on GitHub from Visual Studio 2017.
What You Will Learn
- Understand the basic concept and fundamentals of the technologies used for building the applications
- Set up your development environment
- Create a SQL database from scratch
- Implement a data access layer
- Define REST service endpoints using the Web API
- Deploy, test, and debug iOS and Android applications
- Push your source code to GitHub
Who This Book Is For
.NET developers who want to jump on mobile application development with Xamarin and learn with practical examples.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Vincent works as a senior software engineer in a research and development company, focusing mainly on web and mobile technologies. He is a nine-time Microsoft MVP, three-time C# Corner MVP, CodeProject MVP, Microsoft Influencer, DZone MVB and a regular contributor at CodeProject, CsharpCorner, Microsoft TechNet Wiki, AspSnippets and Xamarin. He also contributes at the official Microsoft ASP.NET community site where he became one of the all-time top answerers with All-Star recognition level (the highest attainable level).
He authored a few e-books for C# Corner: GridView Control Pocket Guide, ASP.NET MVC 5: A Beginner’s Guide and is now working on a new book entitled ASP.NET Core 2: A Beginner’s Guide.
He runs a blog at http://vmsdurano.com, created a few open-source projects that are hosted on Codeplex and GitHub. He also developed VMD.RESTApiResponseWrapper.Core and VMD.RESTApiResponseWrapper.Net NuGet packages.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Game Application Development
Book Subtitle: With Xamarin.Forms and ASP.NET
Authors: Vincent Maverick S. Durano
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4264-3
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Vincent Maverick S. Durano 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4263-6Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4264-3Published: 12 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 269
Number of Illustrations: 102 b/w illustrations
Topics: Game Development, Microsoft and .NET