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As you start to look at getting into mobile development, it can be overwhelming to try
and choose between all the different options and platforms available to you. Each platform
comes with its own set of tools, preferred languages, and overall way of doing
things. In many cases, you won’t want to restrict your application to a single platform,
so naturally you’ll start looking for ways to reuse your code across the different platforms.
If you’re a .NET developer, you are already in a great position, as you can actually
leverage the .NET framework across iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, and hit the
ground running on all of them.
This book will introduce you to all three platforms from the ground up, exploring how
to write native applications for each of them. As part of this exploration, you will see
how to perform some common tasks required by applications, such as accessing the
network, finding the user’s location, and persisting data on the device. In addition to
learning about the platforms themselves, you will see how you can use .NET and C#
to build these native applications, as well as various techniques for achieving a large
amount of code reuse across all of them.
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