Do you want to learn more about asynchronous Android programming? How about the Ionic framework, or JavaScript design patterns? Our latest batch of eBooks will teach you all you need to know about these topics and more.

Our Latest Selection of eBooks

This month we’ve made eight new eBooks available for Envato Tuts+ subscribers to download. Here’s a summary of those books and what you can learn from them.

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  Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development

  Developing a mobile application for just one platform is becoming a thing of the past. Companies expect their apps to be supported on iOS, Android and Windows Phone, while leveraging the best native features on all three platforms. Xamarin's tools help ease this problem by giving developers a single toolset to target all three platforms. The main goal of this book is to equip you with knowledge to successfully analyze, develop, and manage Xamarin cross-platform projects using the most efficient, robust, and scalable implementation patterns.
  

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  Drupal 8 Theming With Twig
  

  Drupal 8 is an open-source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. Starting from the bottom up, in this eBook you will learn to install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. You'll get a walk-through of a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. You will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.

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  Asynchronous Android Programming: Second Edition
  

  Asynchronous programming has acquired immense importance in Android programming, especially when we want to make use of the number of independent processing units (cores) available on the most recent Android devices. With this guide in your hands, you’ll be able to bring the power of asynchronous programming to your own projects, and make your Android apps more powerful than ever before!

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  Ionic Framework by Example
  

  With Ionic, mobile development has never been so simple, so elegant and obvious. By helping developers to harness AngularJS and HTML5 for mobile development, it’s the perfect framework for anyone obsessed with performance, and anyone that understands just how important a great user experience really is. This book shows you how to get started with Ionic framework immediately. But it doesn’t just give you instructions and then expect you to follow them. Instead it demonstrates what Ionic is capable of through three practical projects you can follow and build yourself.

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  Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook
  

  Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook helps you to get most out of CSS3 and harness its benefits to create engaging and receptive applications. This book will help you develop faster and reduce the maintenance time for your web development projects by using Sass and Compass. You will learn how to use with CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation and understand how to use other libraries of pre-built mixins. You will also learn setting up a development environment with Gulp.

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  Android Sensor Programming by Example
  

  Android phones available in today’s market have a wide variety of powerful and highly precise sensors. This book will give you the skills required to use sensors in your Android applications. It will walk you through all the fundamentals of sensors and will provide a thorough understanding of the Android Sensor Framework. By the end of the book, you will be well versed in the use of Android sensors and programming to build interactive applications.

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  Mastering Yii
  

  The successor of Yii Framework 1.1, Yii2 is a complete rewrite of Yii Framework, one of the most popular PHP 5 frameworks for making modern web applications. This book has been written to enhance your skills and knowledge with Yii Framework 2. Starting with configuration and how to initialize new projects, you’ll learn how to configure, manage, and use every aspect of Yii2 from Gii, DAO, Query Builder, Active Record, and migrations, to asset manager. With this book by your side, you’ll have all the skills you need to quickly create rich modern web and console applications with Yii2.

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  Mastering JavaScript Design Patterns: Second Edition
  

  In this book, you will explore how design patterns can help you improve and organize your JavaScript code. You’ll get to grips with creational, structural and behavioral patterns as you discover how to put them to work in different scenarios. Then, you'll get a deeper look at patterns used in functional programming, as well as model view patterns and patterns to build web applications. By the end of the book, you'll be saved of a lot of trial and error and developmental headaches, and you will be on the road to becoming a JavaScript expert.

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