Chapter 1.  Building a Gallery Application

This chapter will walkthrough native development with Xamarin by building an iOS and Android application that will read from your local gallery files, and display them in a UITableView and ListView. The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

Expected knowledge:

• Creating iOS provision certificates
• iOS development
• Objective-C
• Creating keystores
• Android development
• Java

In this chapter you will learn the following:

• Creating an iOS project
• Creating a UIViewController and UITableView
• Customizing a cell's appearance
• Creating an Android project
• Creating an XML interface and ListView
• Shared projects
• Custom row appearance
• Bitmap functions
• The ALAssetLibrary
• Adding the iOS photo screen
• Adding the Android photo screen