Jim Bennett

Jim Bennett is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, specializing in Xamarin mobile apps. He's a frequent speaker at events all around the world, including Xamarin user groups and Xamarin and Microsoft conferences. He regularly blogs about Xamarin development at

books by Jim Bennett

Xamarin in Action
  • April 2018
  • ISBN 9781617294389
  • 608 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / Mobile App Development / Mobile Development
resources: Source Code Book Forum Animation: Building Xamarin mobile apps using MVVM helps you to share most of your code between iOS and Android. Animation: Xamarin provides a mobile optimised developer lifecycle. Animation: The command pattern encapsulates actions inside an object, the same as a genie encapsulates the ability to grant wishes. Slideshare: How can I build cross-platform, native apps while maximizing my code re-use? Article: MVVM-the design pattern for Xamarin apps Article: Introducing Visual Studio Mobile Center Article: Introduction to UI Testing with Xamarin Register your pBook for a free eBook .NET New Podcast

Xamarin in Action teaches you to build cross-platform mobile apps using Xamarin and C#. You'll explore all the layers of a Xamarin app, from design to deployment. Xamarin expert Jim Bennett teaches you design practices that maximize code reuse and isolate device-specific code, making it a snap to incorporate the unique features of each OS.