Working with Remote Data in Xamarin.Forms 4 Applications
Learn how your Xamarin.Forms application can connect with APIs for its data needs.
What you'll learn
Using Xamarin.Forms, .NET developers have the ability to create mobile applications with ease. Nearly every application will need to communicate with a backend for data. In this course, Working with Remote Data in Xamarin.Forms Applications, you will learn how you can access remote data over services from your Xamarin.Forms applications. First, you will see the different supported service types, since Xamarin.Forms can’t communicate with just any service type. Next, you will discover how to communicate with SOAP and WCF services first. Then, you will explore a REST API and see how this can be accessed from Xamarin.Forms. Finally, you will understand how to make the service communication in Xamarin.Forms applications more resilient using retry and error handling. After finishing this course, you will have a good understanding of how your Xamarin.Forms applications can connect with services to access up-to-date data.
Table of contents
- Module Introduction 1m
- What Is REST? 6m
- Demo: Exploring a REST Service Built with ASP.NET Core 3.1 8m
- Demo: Using Postman to Connect with a REST Service 2m
- Communicating from Xamarin.Forms with REST Services 4m
- Demo: Connecting with the REST Service 4m
- Other API Operations 1m
- Demo: Adding, Updating, and Deleting Data 2m
- Demo: Connecting with a Locally-hosted API 4m
- Configuring the Communication for Android and iOS 2m
- Demo: Configuring the Communication for Android and iOS 3m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Gill Cleeren is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and Pluralsight author. Gill is the CTO of Xebia Microsoft Services Belgium and focuses on web and mobile architecture. He's also a frequent speaker at many international conferences. Gill also founded Techorama, the biggest IT conference in Belgium and the Netherlands.