Professional Cross-Platform Mobile Development in C sharp

ning Your Model 91Starting from Your User Experience Design 91Building for Lightly Loaded Lists 94Plan for Lazy-Loaded Details 95Advanced Techniques 96Building Your Controllers 100Implementing Your Workfl ow 101Applying Changes to the Model 110Summary 110CHAPTER 6: BUILDING MONOCROSS CONTAINERS 113Understanding How It All Fits Together 113Implementing a Simple Application 115Initializing the Container 115Building the Customer List View 116Building the Customer View 118Building the Customer Edit View 120Implementing an iOS Platform Container 122Initializing a Container in MonoTouch 122Building the Customer List View in MonoTouch 124Building the Customer View in MonoTouch 127Building the Customer Edit View in MonoTouch 131Implementing an Android Platform Container 134Initializing the Container for Android 134Building the Customer List View for Android 136Building the Customer View for Android 139Building the Customer Edit View for Android 141Implementing a Windows Phone Platform Container 144Initializing a Container for Windows Phone 144Building the Customer List View for Windows Phone 147Building the Customer View for Windows Phone 150Building the Customer Edit View for Windows Phone 154Implementing a WebKit Platform Container 158Initializing a Container with WebKit 158Building the Customer List View with WebKit 159Building the Customer View with WebKit 161Building the Customer Edit View with WebKit 164Summary 166CHAPTER 7: DESIGNING AND BUILDING DATA SERVICES 167Understanding Web Services Principles 167Using SOAP Services 168Using REST Services 168Defining a Mobile Services API 169Starting with Your User Experience Design 169Optimizing for Mobile Usage 170Creating Resource Endpoints 171Building Indexed Lists 174Retrieving Detail Objects 176Enabling Transactions 179Creating JSON Endpoints 187Using Advanced Techniques 190Specifying Data Elements in the Request 190Building Pagination into Your Services 192Filtering Results on the Server 194Summary 196CHAPTER 8: CONSUMING DATA SERVICES 197Initiating RESTful Transactions 197Performing RESTful GETs 201Performing PUTs, POSTs, and DELETEs 211Working Disconnected 222Caching Data 222Standardizing Cache Interface 223Caching Mobile Data In-Memory 223Caching Mobile Data Persistently 225Securing Mobile Data (Encryption) 227Not Caching Mobile Data 228Queuing Data to Server 229Device Resource Considerations 233Managing Memory/File System Consumption 234Managing Network Bandwidth 234Summary 235CHAPTER 9: ACCESSING THE DEVICE 237Utilizing Device Audio and Video Playback Capabilities 238Capturing Audio 239Playing Audio 243Capturing Video 247Playing Video 252Contacts and Calendar 255Accessing Contacts 255Messaging and Communication 258Initiating a Voice Call 258Geo-location 260Getting GPS Location Information 260Accelerometer 265Getting X, Y, and Z 266Summary 270CHAPTER 10: USING MONOCROSS UTILITIES 271Understanding MonoCross Utilities 272Encrypting Application Information 273Understanding the Encryption Utility 273Putting the Encryption Utility to Work 275Using File Storage 276Understanding the File Utility 276Putting the File Utility to Work 277Serializing Objects 280Understanding the Serializer Utility 280Putting the Serializer Utility to Work 281Logging Application Events 285Understanding the Log Utility 285Putting the Log Utility to Work 286Accessing Network Functionality 288Understanding the Network Utility 288Putting the Network Utility to Work 289Threading Your Application 291Understanding the Thread Utility 291Putting the Thread Utility to Work 292Summary 294CHAPTER 11: HYBRID APPLICATIONS 295The Reasoning Behind the Web Hybrid Approach 295Native Applications 295Web Applications 296Hybrid Applications 297Implementing a Hybrid Approach 298Understanding How Hybrid Applications Work 298Building the Web Components 300Building the Native Containers 303Summary 314CHAPTER 12: BRINGING APPLICATIONS TO THE ENTERPRISE 317Expanding Your Application's Domain 317Bringing Your Application to the Desktop 318Bringing Your Application to the Cloud 322Supporting Multiple Platforms 339Future-Proofing Applications 339Building for Reuse 339Using View Abstraction 341Using a Mixed-View Model 342Summary 344INDEX 345