Xamarin Mobile Application Development for iOS -- Table of Contents -- Xamarin Mobile Application Development for iOS -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- 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. Installing the Xamarin Product Range for Android and iOS -- Installing Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android -- Downloading the software -- Installing the software -- Enabling Visual Studio to build and run iOS applications -- On the Mac -- On the PC -- Installing additional code for Android development -- For iOS users -- Summary -- 2. The User Interface -- Creating the User Interface with Xcode -- Screen origins and sizes -- MonoTouch.Dialog (MT.D) -- Changing the keyboard type -- Using ShouldReturn -- Using ResignFirstResponder -- Adding a toolbar to the keyboard -- For an MT.D -- For a standard UITextField -- Creating your own Pickers on MT.D -- UITableView and UITableViewCell -- Colors, buttons, and labels -- Ensuring you have the correct size bounding boxes -- UIColor -- UIButton -- UIControlStates -- Summary -- 3. Views and Layouts -- Selection of the project type -- Application types and their view types -- The iOS layout -- The Canvas model -- How to avoid some of these problems -- Views and View Controllers -- Other Views -- Activity Indicator and Progress View -- UIImageView -- UICollectionView -- Cells -- Supplementary Views -- Decoration View -- Data source -- Cell Reuse -- UIWebView -- MapView -- UIScrollView -- AdBannerView -- Implementing a view with multiple View Controllers -- Summary -- 4. Controllers.

UITableView and UITableViewCell -- Creating a read-only table -- UITableViewCell -- Reusable cells within a table -- Sections and Rows -- Indexes on a TableView -- Navigation with UITableView -- Within code -- With Xcode -- Navigation using UITableView -- Returning to the RootView -- TabBars -- Handling the Tab Bar in code -- PageControl -- GLKit -- Summary -- 5. UI Controls -- Controls and widgets -- UI Controls -- Control selection -- UIButton -- UIStepper -- The other controls -- Comparing Android to iOS UI controls -- Summary -- 6. Events -- Handling events -- Delegates -- Attaching an event to multiple controls -- Synchronous versus asynchronous event handling -- Synchronous walk -- Asynchronous walk -- In a programming context -- Events and controls reference -- Other significant control events -- AVAudioPlayer and AVRecordClass -- AVAudioSession -- ABAddressBook -- ABNewPersonViewController -- ABPeoplePickerNavigationController -- ABPersonViewController -- ABUnknownPersonViewController -- AudioConverter -- AudioSession -- InputAudioQueue -- OutputAudioQueue -- AUGraph and AudioUnit -- AudioConverter -- CAAnimation -- CBCentralManager -- CBPeripheral -- CBPeripheralManager -- CFSocket -- CFStream -- CLLocationManager -- MidiClient -- MidiEndpoint and MidiPort -- Monotouch.Dialog -- BadgeElement, BaseBooleanImageElement, GlassButton, LoadMoreElement, MessageElement, and StringElement -- BoolElement -- DateTimeElement -- DialogViewController -- EntryElement -- StyledStringElement -- EKCalendarChooser -- EKEventEditViewController and EKEventViewController -- EAAccessory -- The NS classes -- NSCache -- NSKeyedArchiver -- NSKeyedUnarchiver -- NSNetService -- NSNetServiceBrowser -- NSStream -- GLKView -- GK classes -- GKAchievementViewController, GKFriendRequestComposeViewController, and GKLeaderboardViewController -- GKGameCenterViewController.

GKMatch -- GKMatchmakerViewController -- GKSession -- MKMapView -- MPMediaPickerController -- MFMailComposeViewController and MFMessageComposeViewController -- PKAddPassesViewController -- QLPreviewController -- SK classes -- SKProductsRequest -- SKRequest -- SKStoreProductViewController -- UIClasses -- UIAccelerometer -- UIActionSheet and UIAlertView -- UIButtonBarItem -- UIImagePickerController -- UIPageViewController -- UIPopoverController -- UIPrintInteractionController -- UIScrollView -- UISearchBar -- UISplitViewController -- UITabBar -- UITabBarController -- UITextField -- UITextView -- UIView -- UIWebView -- Ad classes -- AdBannerView -- AdInterstitialAd -- OpenTK -- IGameWindow -- IPhoneOSGameView -- Summary -- 7. Gestures -- Gestures -- Gesture code -- Types -- Adding a gesture in code -- Continuous types -- Other UIGestureRecognizerState values -- Handling drag-and-drop -- Summary -- 8. Threading -- Threading Concepts -- The main UI thread -- Deadlocking -- Avoiding deadlocks for synchronized accessors -- Starting a new thread from the main UI thread -- Using locks -- The AppDelegate class -- Summary -- 9. Threading Tasks -- A brief introduction to threading -- Using background threading within your app -- BackgroundWorker -- ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem -- Using System.Threading.Tasks -- Problems while using Tasks on threads -- Using Asynchronous code -- Tasks and EventHandlers -- A more practical example -- Summary -- 10. Animation -- Handling bitmaps -- Scaling the image -- Rotating the image - Part 1 -- Underpinning bindings -- Analysis of the code -- Freeing memory after use -- Rotating the image - Part 2 -- Summary -- 11. Handling Data -- Using SQLite -- Installing and setting up SQLite -- Database basics -- A simple database class -- Create a connection to the database -- Setting up an SQLite helper class.

Writing helper class methods -- Adding data to the database -- Data manipulation using LINQ -- LINQ - a whistle-stop tour -- SELECT and WHERE in LINQ - a common cause of confusion -- Using Select in LINQ -- Replacing SQL with LINQ -- Summary -- 12. Peripherals -- Using the camera -- Accessing the camera (Xamarin.Mobile) -- Accessing the camera (Native) -- Saving to the Photo album (Native) -- GPS and Mapping -- GPS with Xamarin.Mobile -- Calculating your speed -- Using Core Location -- Setting up Core Location and delegate -- Finding where the user is -- Adding a map -- Adding a pin -- Storage on the phone -- Making a phone call -- Sending and receiving a text message -- Accessing the Internet -- Multimedia -- Playing a video -- External URL -- Internal source -- From the photo library -- Recording a video -- To record a video -- Saving the video -- The audio system -- Playback -- Short files -- Long (and compressed) files -- Setting the power levels -- Playing the audio file -- Altering the volume -- Recording Audio -- Setting up the audio NSDictionary -- Setting up to record -- Recording the audio file -- Summary -- 13. User Preferences -- The built-in system -- Reading and writing to the .plist file -- Rolling your own settings system -- Serializing and deserializing data -- Setting up the Settings file -- The handler class -- Adding an accessor -- The data class -- Summary -- 14. Testing and Publishing -- Provisioning and signing your app -- TestFlight -- Provisioning -- Registering the app -- Creating the developer profile -- Creating your certificate -- Back to registering your app -- Enabling TestFlight within Xamarin Studio -- Registering on TestFlight -- Inviting and registering devices -- Building to TestFlight -- Releasing your app -- App checklist -- Icon sizes -- Preparing to package -- Packaging your app.

Creating the build configuration -- The App Store Submission Process -- Creating an archive -- Submission via Xcode -- The submission wizard -- Summary -- Index.