Xamarin Mobile Application Development: Cross-Platform C# and Xamarin.Forms Fundamentals

I am enrolled in Xamarin University, but (and this is not meant to disparage the wonderful people there) I feel like this book got me from zero to fifty in a few hours of reading. This should be required reading for anyone starting out with Xamarin Forms. It saved me hours of grief. I now feel like I can hold intelligent conversations about all things Xamarin. Well done and highly recommended!

I have had the book about an hour and my eyes are glazed over. For the first 10 pages the same couple of ideas are stated and restated so much it is hard to focus. Yes, I get it, Xamarin can be used for iOs and Android and Windows. Finally on page 21 are the first instructions on how to create a Xamarin forms project, and the instructions are absolutely wrong, at least for my version of Visual Studio 2015 (with Xamarin installed). What the author instructs you to do simply does not exist. So now I am playing detective on the internet trying to piece it together on my own....not on one of the more complicated ideas, but simply on the very first step, creating a demo program. So why buy the book?

It would be good if the book started with a clear step-to-step tutorial on how to quickstart an app and have it running in at least Android, iOS (either iPhone or iPad) and Windows Phone. I struggled a bit at the beginning to have it running with the help of Google & StackOverflow. Once you have a build and device deploy in place, the "lessons" are pretty good.

Would not recommend it. The book has too few pages to make it an inclusive reference book or a book of any depth on the subject. The screenshots are of low quality too.

It's ok. Didn't have SQL one to many list info like I wanted.

This book has bit hard to follow, but has accurate information. No support from publisher

The author does more talking about Xamarin then he does showing examples and screenshots. I would have liked to seen chapters devoted to example projects that I can follow along with in Visual Studio.

The definitive book on the subject, but lacks guidance in install/setup of tools.

Great book to introduce to xamarin.forms development! Seriously allowed me to hit the ground running in developing on a platform I never have before. Once you do your first screen the rest just fly by. If you have ever done WPF programming with XAML this should feel natural to you. Although the book doesn't use XAML examples you can just use XAML and MVVM.

An excellent introduction for C# programmers. Good examples and clever split between Forms / Android and iOS

An excellent practical introduction to Xamarin development, covering all the aspects of a data-driven mobile app with plenty of code samples. The primary focus is on Xamarin.Forms, but it also covers doing the same things with Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS.

As a software engineer on the support team, I learned a lot which will assist me in supporting the projects the other engineers develop.

Um mit Xamarin eine mobile App zu bauen ist mit der kostenlosen Version von .net sehr gut beraten.Mit diesem Buch erfährt man den Umgang mit Xamarin und dem bilden von Apps under .net.Meiner Meinung nach ein Buch für den erfahrenen (Programmierer) Anfänger, der einen weitergehenden Einstieg in Entwicklung von mobilen Anwendungen auf Apple, Android oder Windows-Plattformen sucht.