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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

Value converters


In some cases, there are times when we need to data bind two properties of incompatible types. A Converter is an object that converts the value from source to target and vice versa. Each converter must implement the IValueConverter interface, which implements two functions, Convert and ConvetBack. We are going to create a converter that will take a bool as the source, and simply return the opposite value to the value in the source.

The ConvertBack method will only be used if the data binding is a TwoWay binding.

In the Stocklist.XamForms project, add a new folder called Converters, and inside this folder create a new file called NotConverter.cs, implement the following:

    public class NotConverter : IValueConverter 
    { 
        public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) 
        { 
            var b = value as bool?; 
 
            if (b != null) 
            { 
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