Grouping is essential in many cases. Most often, you will see grouping in a settings page that breaks the rows into categories. It can be applied for anything that makes sense in a parent-child fashion; maybe you want to show grouped orders with their corresponding items.
In iOS, we enable the jump list built-in support, which will make visible a small list to the right of the screen that you can tap and navigate to the corresponding index of the collection.
In Visual Studio, go to the top menu and select File | New | Project. Choose the Blank App (Xamarin.Forms Portable) template, name it XamFormsAddGrouping, and click OK.
Right-click the PCL, Add | Class…, name it
Character.cs
, and click Add. Find next the abbreviated version of theCharacter
class; refer to this section in the book code for the list of characters returned in theCharacters
property:public class Character { public string Name { get; set; } public string Species { get...