{"id":16609,"date":"2015-02-03T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=16609"},"modified":"2015-02-03T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:21:07","slug":"xamarin-forms-book-second-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/xamarin-forms-book-second-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Xamarin.Forms Book Second Preview Edition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/Creating-Mobile-Apps-with-Xamarin-Forms.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15054 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/Creating-Mobile-Apps-with-Xamarin-Forms-150x150.png\" alt=\"Creating-Mobile-Apps-with-Xamarin-Forms\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Since Xamarin Evolve 2014, we&#8217;ve received fantastic feedback on the <a href=\"\/xamarin.forms-book-preview-edition-available-now\/preview-1\/\">first<\/a> Preview Edition of Charles Petzold&#8217;s <em>Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms<\/em>, so we&#8217;re excited to announce that we&#8217;re making a Second Preview available for download.<\/p>\n<p>The book has been updated to incorporate feedback from the first preview, as well as to include the latest features from Xamarin.Forms 1.3. Readers will notice a substantial re-organization of the book and additional XAML content that was not in the first preview.<\/p>\n<p>The following chapters are <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.xamarin.com\/guides\/cross-platform\/xamarin-forms\/creating-mobile-apps-xamarin-forms\/\">available for download today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 0px\" border=\"0\" width=\"85%\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background: #ecf0f1\">\n<td style=\"border: 0px\">\n<h4>Chapter 1. How Does Xamarin.Forms Fit In?<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa\">\n<td style=\"border: 0px\">\n<h4>Chapter 2. Anatomy of an App<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ecf0f1\">\n<td style=\"border: 0px\">\n<h4>Chapter 3. Deeper into Text<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa\">\n<td style=\"border: 0px\">\n<h4>Chapter 4. Scrolling the Stack<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ecf0f1\">\n<td style=\"border: 0px\">\n<h4>Chapter 5. Dealing with Sizes<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa\">\n<td style=\"border: 0px\">\n<h4>Chapter 6. Button Clicks<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #ecf0f1\">\n<td style=\"border: 0px\">\n<h4>Chapter 7. XAML vs. Code<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background: #f8f9fa\">\n<td style=\"border: 0px\">\n<h4>Chapter 8. Code and XAML in Harmony<\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>And there are many more chapters still to come! We will be updating the <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.xamarin.com\/guides\/cross-platform\/xamarin-forms\/creating-mobile-apps-xamarin-forms\/\">download page<\/a> every week or so with a new chapter until the book is complete and we move into the final editing and publishing phase.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy the second preview chapters as they become available. For more Xamarin.Forms content, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.xamarin.com\/guides\/cross-platform\/xamarin-forms\/\">Developer Center<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Xamarin Evolve 2014, we&#8217;ve received fantastic feedback on the first Preview Edition of Charles Petzold&#8217;s Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, so we&#8217;re excited to announce that we&#8217;re making a Second Preview available for download. The book has been updated to incorporate feedback from the first preview, as well as to include the latest features [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":570,"featured_media":39167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,16],"class_list":["post-16609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","tag-xamarin-platform","tag-xamarin-forms"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Since Xamarin Evolve 2014, we&#8217;ve received fantastic feedback on the first Preview Edition of Charles Petzold&#8217;s Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms, so we&#8217;re excited to announce that we&#8217;re making a Second Preview available for download. 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