Steven F. Daniel - Mastering Xamarin UI Development: Build robust and a maintainable cross-platform mobile UI with Xamarin and C# 7, 2nd Edition

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Steven F. Daniel is the CEO and founder of GENIESOFT STUDIOS, a software development company based in Melbourne, Victoria, that focuses primarily on developing games and business applications for the iOS, Android, and Mac OS X platforms.
He is an experienced software engineer with more than 17 years' experience and is extremely passionate about making people employable by helping them use their existing skills in iOS, Android, and Xamarin to get the job done. He is a member of the SQL Server Special Interest Group (SQLSIG), CocoaHeads, and the Java Community. He was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at SoftMpire Pty Ltd., a company focused primarily on developing business applications for the iOS and Android platforms.

Jeremy Clough has been a programmer for 18 years, and just remembers the early days of C# when it was known as Cool. Since then he has developed a passion for F# and other functional programming languages, enjoying it when some of their features make it back into C#.

Senior Principal Developer at SEEK, and officially part of the furniture, Jeremy has been there long enough to have his most embarrassing code refactored out of existence.

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No book is the product of just the author; he just happens to be the one with his name on the cover. Several people contributed to the success of this book, and it would take more space than thanking each one individually.

First and foremost, I want to thank Chan Ban Guan for his constant guidance, support, encouragement, and understanding, throughout the whole writing process. My sincere gratitude to my Acquisition Editors, Shweta Pant and Devanshi Doshi, for giving me the opportunity to author the second edition of this book. To my Content Development Editor, Aishwarya Gawankar, for her understanding and support throughout the whole writing process.

I would also like to thank my Technical Editor, Rutuja Vaze, for her support throughout the final stages of this book. It was a pleasure to be able to work with you on this book; thanks goes to each and everyone of you for making the whole writing process such an enjoyable process. I would like to thank my technical reviewer, Jeremy Clough, for doing an awesome job of reviewing the contents and sharing his valuable feedback to make this book what it is; I am truly grateful.

Thank you also to the entire Packt Publishing team who worked on this book so diligently and tirelessly to help bring out such a high-quality final product. Finally, a big shout out to the engineers at Microsoft for creating Visual Studio for Mac and C#, the number one programming language, and the .NET platform, which helps provide developers with a rich set of tools that enables them to create fun, sophisticated applications using Xamarin and the power of Xamarin.Forms.