Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android: Learn to Develop Full Featured Android Apps Using Your Existing C# Skills With Xamarin.android

For someone diving into Xamarin development for the very first time and looking for a good introduction, this book is fantastic. It provides a good overview of the Xamarin toolset and how to integrate many common features into a handy Point-of-Interest app which you build along the way.That said, I spotted at least a handful of coding errors which could cause newbie C# developers some issues if they are not used to debugging, particularly in a potentially unfamiliar IDE with their application running on a piece of external hardware. None of the errors in code were road-blockers, but it should be known. It should also be known that I only read the Kindle version. These mistakes might *not* be in the print version.Again, overall, I am very satisfied with the content of this book, but I would only recommend it to comfortable C# developers who have never worked in Xamarin before.

My company had me look into Xamarin to do a quick evaluation. I primarily do Windows development and didn't want to lug around a second laptop, a macbook, in order to set up a iOS build box so I figured Android would be the way to go. I don't have any native Android development experience and know little about the platform so this book really helped me out.The author walks you through the initial setup and quickly introduces you to the essentials necessary to walk through the demo app (Android manifest, layouts, Actions, Intents, etc.)I picked up the Kindle version and the code formatting is great!

Other kindle tech books contain helpful links to the beginning of each chapter. For the PC viewer, these links are available in the contents tab of the black toolbar, usually on the left hand side of the page. These links make navigating through the book easier than always going back to the Table of Contents at the beginning of the book.This book also seems rather short. I have owned this book for only 24 hours, and I am already 43% through it. I am not a speed reader, and I have been doing plenty of other things as well. The first third of the book is devoted to "Getting Started". The writing style is easy to read, and looks reasonable, but so far I haven't seen much depth, and make leave you wanting for more.

My professor decided to start at chapter 4, which has just caused headaches for the entire class. This book builds upon previous chapters, and the directions are real difficult to understand. I dislike this book, I will never use Xamarin or products related to it after this course.

This has been a really good book. I've made my first App in just under 30 days thanks to this book. I've made several apps in Objective C for iOS over the past couple of years and wanted to get into Android but didn't want to use Eclipse or Java. This has been awesome.

I just read this book in on sitting and I look forward to reading it again while building the sample app. This will help me greatly in writing an app for a client!

Good but like most Xamarin books, not deep enough and nothing on Sqlite.

I expected a little more out of this book. It took me less than 20 minutes to glance through this book and most of the information can be found via Google. I was hoping for a technical in depth of Xamarin Studio & Mobile Development.