Vincent - Learning ArcGIS Runtime SDK for .NET : learn how to build native, cross-platform mapping apps with this comprehensive and practical guide, using MVVM pattern

Prasad Lingam has been passionately exploring Geoinformation technologies for almost 10 years. He has gained knowledge in the application of Geoinformatics to areas such as urban planning, transportation, utilities, environment and construction management, thus leveraging his civil engineering background. He is currently working in the water and waste water domain, implementing geospatial analysis in Desktop GIS and promoting web as well as mobile-based GIS applications for solving operational and planning issues. His work experience spans to project locations such as Perth, the Middle East, New Zealand, Fiji, and India. He is keen toward studying the confluence of geospatial technologies with technologies such as Big Data, BIM, Geo-Visualization, and so on.

Shaik Shavali , a senior GIS developer at Dar Al-Riyadh, Shaik, has 7 to 8 years of experience in the field of geospatial technologies and projects. His areas of expertise are developing custom GIS web and mobile applications using the latest ESRI technologies. He was one of the lead developers for Emergency Response Management Systems for the largest Islamic pilgrimage (Hajj), gathering nearly 2 million people. Currently, he is actively taking part in designing and developing GIS projects for the government sector in Saudi Arabia.

He has received his bachelors in engineering. Presently, he is pursuing his masters in GIS through UNIGIS.

Firstly, I would like to thank Allah for his countless blessings. I would also like to thank my parents (Akbar Saheb and Fathima), in-laws (Ehasanulla and Shahnaz), and family for their emotional support, guidance, and prayers. Finally, I would like to thank my better half, Farheen Ehasanulla, for her love and support, which has always pushed me to do better. She is my backbone, best critic, and most importantly, my best friend.

Welcome to the exciting world of building native, cross-platform mapping apps! For many kinds of app, a map is not only a nice feature, it's a must. With this book, you're going to explore ArcGIS Runtime, which is a Software Developer Kit (SDK) from Esri, the world's largest provider of Geographic Information System software. With this SDK, you're going to be taken on a journey from the basics up to an intermediate level of understanding how to build a complete, professional application by learning the ArcGIS Runtime SDK and Application Programming Interface (API). With ArcGIS Runtime, you can build native, cross-platform mapping apps that can include the ability to display data in 2D and 3D from online or offline data sources, edit online and offline data, online and offline geocoding and routing, conduct spatial analysis, navigation, and so on. What's more is that ArcGIS Runtime comes in several languages, such as .NET (C# and Visual Basic), Java SE, Objective-C, and C++. As a result, you can build highly performant apps and run them natively on Windows, iOS, OS X, Android, and Linux.

With the API, you can build interactive, beautiful maps that you can then sell on the App Store, or make available to users in your organization as part of an Enterprise Mobility strategy, or even embed a map into another app such as a military system. Your users will then be able to access a rich set of content from the cloud (ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS) or in disconnected mode using offline data that you or your organization has created. As you gain more familiarity with the API, you'll find that it's much easier than previous technologies from Esri and offers new possibilities such as augmented reality, real-time mapping, virtual reality, disconnected analytics, and a whole host of other possibilities.