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Xamarin Blueprints

By : Michael Williams
Book Image

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
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Preface

The audio player


Our next step in this project is to build the user interface for controlling the audio. Add a new file called AudioPlayerPage.cs inside the Views folder; don't forget to add the attribute above the class declaration to register the view-model for the MVVMCross framework:

[MvxViewFor(typeof(AudioPlayerPageViewModel))] 
public class AudioPlayerPage : MvxViewController 
{ 
   private UIButton playButton; 
 
        private UISlider _progressSlider; 
 
        private bool _playing; 
 
        private AudioPlayerPageViewModel _model; 
} 

Note

We have declared some local scope variables that need to be used across multiple functions; you will see how these will be used later.

Now let's create the UI elements via the ViewDidLoad function:

public override void ViewDidLoad() 
        { 
            base.ViewDidLoad(); 
 
            var mainView = new UIView() 
            { 
                TranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false, 
                BackgroundColor = UIColor...