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Mastering Xamarin UI Development

By : Steven F. Daniel
Book Image

Mastering Xamarin UI Development

By: Steven F. Daniel

Overview of this book

<p>Xamarin is the most powerful cross-platform mobile development framework. If you are interested in creating stunning user interfaces for the iOS and Android mobile platforms using the power of Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms, then this is your ticket.</p> <p>This book will provide you the practical skills required to develop real-world Xamarin applications. You will learn how to implement UI structures and layouts, create customized elements, and write C# scripts to customize layouts. You will create UI layouts from scratch so that you can tweak and customize a given UI layout to suit your needs by using Data Templates.</p> <p>Moving on, you will use third-party libraries – such as the Razor template engine that allows you to create your own HTML5 templates within the Xamarin environment – to build a book library Hybrid solution that uses the SQLite.Net library to store, update, retrieve, and delete information within a SQLite local database. You’ll also implement key data-binding techniques that will make your user interfaces dynamic, and create personalized animations and visual effects within your user interfaces using Custom Renderers and the PlatformEffects API to customize and change the appearance of control elements.</p> <p>At the end of this book, you will test your application UI for robust and consistent behavior and then explore techniques to deploy to different platforms.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Xamarin UI Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Creating and implementing the BookLibrary database wrapper


In the previous section, we successfully created and implemented our BookDatabase database class that will be used by our BookLibrary application. Our next step is to begin implementing the code required for our BookLibraryDB class that will act as a wrapper for our BookDatabase class, to perform all database actions for our BookLibrary application.

Let's begin by performing the following steps:

  1. Create an empty class within the BookLibrary solution, by choosing Add | New File..., as you did when creating the model in the previous section entitled Creating and implementing the book library database model, located within this chapter.

  2. Then, enter in BookLibraryDB for the name of the new class that you want to create, and click on the New button to allow the wizard to proceed and create the new file.

  3. Next, ensure that the BookLibraryDB.cs file is displayed within the code editor window, and then enter in the following code snippet:

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