Mobile Development with C# - Building Native iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Applications - E-book - Multi-format

It's true: you can build native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone with C# and the . NET Framework-with help from MonoTouch and Mono for Android. This hands-on guide shows you how to reuse one codebase across all three platforms by combining the business logic layer of your C# app with separate, fully native UIs. It's an ideal marriage of platform-specific development and the "write once, run everywhere" philosophy. By building a series of simple applications, you'll experience the advantages of using .
NET in mobile development and learn how to write complete apps that access the unique features of today's three most important mobile platforms. - Learn the building blocks for building applications on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone - Discover how the Mono tools interact with iOS and Android - Use several techniques and patterns for maximizing non-UI code reuse - Determine how much functionality can go into the shared business logic layer - Connect to external resources with .
NET's rich networking stack - Read and write data using each platform's filesystem and local database - Create apps to explore the platforms' location and mapping capabilities