Chapter 1: Introduction to cross-platform development with XamarinTopics:

• Hello Xamarin!
• C# everywhere
• How Xamarin works
• Xamarin components
• Visual Studio integration
• Xamarin Studio
• Xamarin Forms and XAML
• Xamarin Test Cloud
• Preparing your environment for Xamarin
• Labs: A guided tour of your development environment

Chapter 2: Cross-platform code-sharing approaches and architectural considerations

• Topics:
• Code sharing options
• Architecture of a Cross-platform Xamarin application
• Shared Projects
• Portable Class Libraries

Chapter 3: Building our first Xamarin.Android application

• Topics
• Activities
• Intents
• Permissions
• Resources
• Lab: Creating your first Xamarin.Android application

Chapter 4: Android Application fundamentals

• Topics
• More on activities
• Activity lifecycle
• Services and backgrounding
• Location awareness
• Working with data on the device
• Push notifications basics
• Labs: Creating a master-detail app (optional)

Chapter 5: UI Development with Xamarin.Android

• Topics
• Working with the designer tools
• Doing layout in Android
• Views in Android
• ListViews and Adapters
• Working with Fragments
• Navigation patterns in Android
• Creating a Material-based app
• Labs: Creating a Material app with fragments and a drawerlayout

Chapter 6: Deploying your Xamarin.Android apps

• Topics
• Debugging and logging with your device and the emulator
• Packaging and deploying to the store

Chapter 7: Building our first Xamarin.IOS application

• Topics
• Getting started in iOS
• UIViewController
• NavigationController
• Storyboards
• Labs: Creating your first Xamarin.iOS application

Chapter 8: UI Development with iOS

• Topics
• Working with Storyboards and XIB files
• Controllers
• Navigation controller
• Modal controller
• Tab controller
• …
• Creating your screens with iOS views
• Labs: Creating a more advanced UI for your iOS application

Chapter 9: Table and collection views

• Topics
• TableViews
• TableSource
• Indexing
• Headers and footers
• Cell appearance
• Labs: Creating a UI with Table views

Chapter 10: Deploying your Xamarin.iOS applications

• Topics
• Debugging
• Deploying to the store

Chapter 11: Introduction to Xamarin.Forms

• Topics
• Introduction to Xamarin Forms
• Project structure
• Pages
• Views and layouts
• Lists
• Navigation
• Platform features
• Working with the DependencyService

Chapter 12: XAML and databinding in Xamarin.Forms

• Topics
• What is XAML?
• Building an app with XAML
• XAML Syntax
• XAML Markup Extensions
• Data binding
• Labs: Creating your first Xamarin.Forms app

Chapter 13: Creating a cross-platform application with MVVM

• Topics:
• MVVM & MVVMCross
• Code sharing
• View Models