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Xamarin Blueprints

By : Michael Williams
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Xamarin Blueprints

By: Michael Williams

Overview of this book

Do you want to create powerful, efficient, and independent apps from scratch that will leverage the Xamarin framework and code with C#? Well, look no further; you’ve come to the right place! This is a learn-as-you-build practical guide to building eight full-fledged applications using Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin Android, and Xamarin iOS. Each chapter includes a project, takes you through the process of building applications (such as a gallery Application, a text-to-speech service app, a GPS locator app, and a stock market app), and will show you how to deploy the application’s source code to a Google Cloud Source Repository. Other practical projects include a chat and a media-editing app, as well as other examples fit to adorn any developer’s utility belt. In the course of building applications, this book will teach you how to design and prototype professional-grade applications implementing performance and security considerations.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Xamarin Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

The Mvx IoC container


MVVMCross comes with its very own IoC container. It works exactly like our previous example with Autofac, but we are not going to be using modules. Let's begin by registering our sound handler implementation; open our AppDelegate.cs file and create a new private function called setupIoC:

private void SetupIoC() 
{ 
     Mvx.RegisterType<ISoundHandler, SoundHandler>(); 
} 

We must also register our view-models so we can retrieve registered interfaces within our view-model's constructor. Let's add a new folder called IoC inside our AudioPlayer.Portable project. Add a new file called PortableMvxIoCRegistrations.cs and implement the following:

public static class PortableMvxIoCRegistrations 
    { 
        public static void InitIoC() 
        { 
            Mvx.IocConstruct<MainPageViewModel>(); 
            Mvx.IocConstruct<AudioPlayerPageViewModel>(); 
        } 
    } 

Now we must call the static function InitIoC from the AppDelegate function SetupIoC...