{"id":15053,"date":"2014-10-20T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=15053"},"modified":"2014-10-20T09:30:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T13:30:55","slug":"xamarin-forms-book-preview-edition-available-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/xamarin-forms-book-preview-edition-available-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Xamarin.Forms Book Preview Edition Available Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe <a href=\"\/xamarin-acquires-petzold\/\">Petzold engine<\/a> has been churning through the Xamarin.Forms API, and we&#8217;re pleased to announce that the first preview edition of <em>Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms<\/em> is now available. It was distributed in print to all Xamarin Evolve 2014 attendees last week and is now available as a free download in a number of formats:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/Creating-Mobile-Apps-with-Xamarin-Forms.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15054\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/Creating-Mobile-Apps-with-Xamarin-Forms-246x300.png\" alt=\"Creating-Mobile-Apps-with-Xamarin-Forms\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com\/ebooks#Creating%20Mobile%20Apps%20with%20Xamarin.Forms,%20Preview%20Edition\">PDF<\/a> from Microsoft Virtual Academy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Creating-Xamarin-Forms-Preview-Developer-Reference-ebook\/dp\/B00NXYJ8DK\/\">Kindle edition<\/a> from Amazon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Charles_Petzold_Creating_Mobile_Apps_with_Xamarin_?id=C86iBAAAQBAJ\">Google Play Books<\/a> for Android<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/book\/creating-mobile-apps-xamarin.forms\/id923432511?mt=11\">Apple iBook Store<\/a> for iOS and Mac<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The six chapters available in the preview edition cover the history of Xamarin.Forms, solution structure, the basics of the view system and building your first Xamarin.Forms app. The extensive samples are also available for <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/xamarin\/xamarin-forms-book-preview\">download from GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Charles also presented two talks at Evolve: <strong>XAML for Xamarin.Forms<\/strong> and <strong>Xamarin.Forms is Cooler Than You Think<\/strong>, both of which will be available shortly as videos of the sessions are published at <a href=\"http:\/\/evolve.xamarin.com\">evolve.xamarin.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/Evolve-Xamarin-Forms-talk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-15055\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/Evolve-Xamarin-Forms-talk-1024x482.jpg\" alt=\"Evolve-Xamarin-Forms-talk\" width=\"512\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Work continues on both <a href=\"http:\/\/xamarin.com\/forms\">Xamarin.Forms<\/a> and the book!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Petzold engine has been churning through the Xamarin.Forms API, and we&#8217;re pleased to announce that the first preview edition of Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms is now available. 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