Build Your Own Mobile Application - Android, Iphone and Windows

This course is appropriate for students that love computers.  If you have programming experience, that would be very helpful, but not absolutely necessary.  I will teach you enough programming to be successful in this course.

This course will be a hands-on learning experience.  The student will be creating his/her own mobile application on a Windows 10 PC while being taught and guided by the instructor.  We will be using Microsoft Xamarin to learn how to create mobile applications that will run on iPhone, Android and Windows.  If you have an Apple Mac, you can still participate in this course.  However, the course will be taught on a Windows 10 PC and support for the Mac will be minimal.

Each class will begin with the day's lesson, followed by and exercise for the student to complete during class time.  Through video chat and shared screen, the student will learn each step in the process.  At the end of each day, the student will have a completed project that encompasses everything we learned for that day.
At the end of the course, the student will have a working mobile app that he/she can use and continue to expand on.

The topics of each class are as follows.

Day 1 – Class Introduction and Setup
1. Visual Studio Installation
2. Class Introductions
3. Intro to Xamarin Forms

Day 2 – Visual Studio
1. Intro to Visual Studio
2.  ASSIGNMENT: Hello World Program

Day 3 – Xamarin UI – Part 1
1. Stack Layout
2. Views
3. ASSIGNMENT – Stack Layout

Day 4 – Xamarin UI = Part 2
1. Grid Layout
2. ASSIGNMENT – Grid Layout

Day 5 – C# Essentials
1. C# Basics
2.  ASSIGNMENT – C# Concepts Console App

Day 6 – Object Oriented Programming
1. Intro to OOP
2. Constructors
3. ASSIGNMENT – Console App

Day 7 - MVVM
1. Intro to MVVM
2. MVVM design
3. ASSIGNMENT – Collection App Level 1

Day 8 - Listview and Prompts
1. List View
2. NuGET – PromptAsync
3. ASSIGNMENT – Collection App Level 2

Day 9 - Multi-Page Application
1. Navigation
2. Data Persistence
3. ASSIGNMENT – Collection App Level 3

Day 10 -  Adding a Database
1. Database design
2. ASSIGNMENT – Collection App Level 4

Day 11 - iOS and Android Deployment
1. Designing for iOS and Android
2. Publishing

Day 12 - Student Project Showcase
1. Showcase
2. Next Steps
3.  Q&A