Petzold Strikes Again
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Charles Petzold is sometimes known for producing large and wordy tomes. I started with Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, and several days later am only on chapter 9 of 27, and all he has done is basic hello world apps, and written a million words the Xamarin student must wade through, discussing how great XAML is. Any recommendations for a book to quickly get up to speed producing mobile, especially Android, apps using Xamarin would be most welcome.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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Charles Petzold is sometimes known for producing large and wordy tomes. I started with Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, and several days later am only on chapter 9 of 27, and all he has done is basic hello world apps, and written a million words the Xamarin student must wade through, discussing how great XAML is. Any recommendations for a book to quickly get up to speed producing mobile, especially Android, apps using Xamarin would be most welcome.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
I've been building native Android apps (using Xamarin) for a little over a year now. The productivity and ability to share code using C#/VS is awesome! Apart from a foray into Xamarin Forms about 2+ years ago, I decided to stay away from it for a while. Instead, I focused on learning the Android platform, which I did by reading most of this book before writing a single line of code:
It worked out pretty well! :) /ravi
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I've been building native Android apps (using Xamarin) for a little over a year now. The productivity and ability to share code using C#/VS is awesome! Apart from a foray into Xamarin Forms about 2+ years ago, I decided to stay away from it for a while. Instead, I focused on learning the Android platform, which I did by reading most of this book before writing a single line of code:
It worked out pretty well! :) /ravi
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Thanks, Ravi, that book looks ideal.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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Charles Petzold is sometimes known for producing large and wordy tomes. I started with Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, and several days later am only on chapter 9 of 27, and all he has done is basic hello world apps, and written a million words the Xamarin student must wade through, discussing how great XAML is. Any recommendations for a book to quickly get up to speed producing mobile, especially Android, apps using Xamarin would be most welcome.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
How about reading every 10th page only ?
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Charles Petzold is sometimes known for producing large and wordy tomes. I started with Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, and several days later am only on chapter 9 of 27, and all he has done is basic hello world apps, and written a million words the Xamarin student must wade through, discussing how great XAML is. Any recommendations for a book to quickly get up to speed producing mobile, especially Android, apps using Xamarin would be most welcome.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
Can't wait to hear how many chapters he has on publishing an app on the Play Store. Let me guess, that's chapters 10-27. ;)
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Thanks, Ravi, that book looks ideal.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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It's an easy read - well written and useful. I think you'll like it. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
My book is a lot easier if you skip a lot of exercises. The time it takes to print "Hello world" with "Hello" in bold, on my emulator just isn't worth it. The build and deploy time is much more than the coding time. I am getting to some nicer exercises now that he's spent n chapters telling us how good XAML a fit is for cross-platform.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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Charles Petzold is sometimes known for producing large and wordy tomes. I started with Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, and several days later am only on chapter 9 of 27, and all he has done is basic hello world apps, and written a million words the Xamarin student must wade through, discussing how great XAML is. Any recommendations for a book to quickly get up to speed producing mobile, especially Android, apps using Xamarin would be most welcome.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
I've gotten more useful information about programming from Charles Petzold than any other writer I've read. I doubt I'd be doing this for a living now if I hadn't had the good sense to buy his early Windows books.
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I've gotten more useful information about programming from Charles Petzold than any other writer I've read. I doubt I'd be doing this for a living now if I hadn't had the good sense to buy his early Windows books.
And I'm sure I'll say the same about Xaml Forms (at least) when I eventually get round to finishing his Xaml Forms book. I already know more than average about the deeper workings of WPF, because I started there with a Petzold book.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
