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Basics

• What is Xamarin
• Xamarin Native
• Xamarin Forms
  • https://github.com/xamarin/dev-days-labs
• MVVM
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/xamarin/xamarin-forms/enterprise-application-patterns/mvvm
• Async / Await
  • https://github.com/brminnick/AsyncAwaitBestPractices
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0mcYVxJEl0
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2gAv5Vrkk

Xamarin App

• MVVMCross Tutorial TipCalc
  • https://www.mvvmcross.com/documentation/tutorials/tipcalc/the-tip-calc-tutorial
  • REMARK: TargetFrameworkVersion must be 9 or greater for MVVMCross! (MvvmCross/MvvmCross#2807)
• Todo App
• Consuming a REST service (see Refit)
• Preferences (see Xamarin Essentials)
• Persistence

Advanced Topics

• Create nuget libraries and distribute them with nexus
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/create-packages/creating-a-package
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/create-packages/creating-a-package-dotnet-cli
  • http://blog.majcica.com/2016/01/15/nexus-repository-manager-oss-as-nuget-server/
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/nuget-exe-cli-reference
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/quickstart/create-and-publish-a-package-using-the-dotnet-cli
• Bindings for native libraries
  • https://xamarinhelp.com/creating-xamarin-android-binding-library/
  • https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EgorBogatov.XamarinGradleBindings
  • https://github.com/martijn00/ExoPlayerXamarin
  • https://gist.github.com/JonDouglas/dda6d8ace7d071b0e8cb
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/platform/binding-java-library/binding-an-aar
• Data performance /profiling / benchmarking
  • https://www.hanselman.com/blog/BenchmarkingNETCode.aspx
  • https://github.com/dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet
  • https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache/blob/master/performance.xlsx
  • http://jonathanpeppers.com/Blog/xamarin-forms-performance-on-android
• Offline first / caching
  • https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache
  • https://github.com/reactiveui/Akavache
  • https://github.com/MikeCodesDotNet/App-Service-Helpers
• Xamarin Forms
  • Forms pages in native / native views in Forms
    • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/platform/native-views
    • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/platform/native-forms
  • Tuning
    • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/deploy-test/performance
    • https://xamarinhelp.com/improving-xamarin-forms-startup-performance/
    • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/internals/fast-renderers
    • https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/xamarin-forms-perf-playground
• Deal with 2 garbage collectors / profiling
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/deploy-test/profiling
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/cross-platform/deploy-test/memory-perf-best-practices
  • https://github.com/PieEatingNinjas/XamarinMemIssuesDemo / https://www.slideshare.net/NCore1/techorama-2018-help-my-xamarin-app-has-memory-issues-pieter-nijs
• Android build optimization
  • https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/dex-counting-xamarin-android-improved/

Testing

• Unit tests with nunit
• Code coverage (windows only)
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/using-code-coverage-to-determine-how-much-code-is-being-tested
• automated UI tests with Xamarin UI tests
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/test-cloud/uitest/working-with-repl

Examples

• App resilient against network problems
  • https://github.com/Depechie/2017-ConnectedApp
• Doing the impossible things with forms
  • https://github.com/Depechie/2018-XamarinOutOfTheBox
• ORM with Entity Framework Core
  • https://github.com/adamped/EFXamarin
• Real life Xamarin Forms Apps
  • https://gist.github.com/davidortinau/5c9129e2bfaabafcb58df07325cb4a90
• Beatiful UI with Xamarin Forms
  • https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/xamarin-forms-goodlooking-UI

Tools

• Visual Studio (windows and mac)
  • https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
• Rider (windows and mac)
  • https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/
• mfractor (mac)
  • https://www.mfractor.com/
• resharper (windows)
  • https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
• CAKE (build automation system)
  • https://cakebuild.net/
• NUKE (build automation system)
  • https://www.nuke.build/
• Appcenter
  • https://appcenter.ms/
• Gitversion
  • https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion

Libraries

• Fody (code weaving for .net)
  • https://github.com/Fody
• Xamarin Essentials (gives developers essential cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications.)
  • https://github.com/xamarin/Essentials
  • https://github.com/xamarin/XamarinComponents
• Shiny (Cross Platform Backgrounding)
  • https://github.com/shinyorg
• Skia (2D drawing and animations)
  • https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp
• Lottie (Animations)
  • https://github.com/martijn00/LottieXamarin
  • https://lottiefiles.com/
  • https://editor.lottiefiles.com/
• Polly (a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback)
  • https://github.com/App-vNext/Polly
• Refit (automatic typesafe REST library)
  • https://github.com/reactiveui/refit
• Automapper
  • https://automapper.org/
• Dapper (OR Mapper, lightweight)
  • https://github.com/StackExchange/Dapper
• Entity Framework Core (OR Mapper)
  • https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFrameworkCore
  • https://xamarinhelp.com/entity-framework-core-xamarin-forms/