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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

Adding scroll control to the CarouselView


Add a new file into the Controls folder called CarouselScroll.cs and implement the first part as follows:

public class CarouselScroll : ScrollView 
  { 
    #region Private Properties
      private CarouselLayout _carouselLayout;
    #endregion
    public DataTemplate ItemTemplate
    {
      set
      {
        _carouselLayout.ItemTemplate = value;
      }
    }
    public CarouselScroll()
    {
      Orientation = ScrollOrientation.Horizontal;
      _carouselLayout = new CarouselLayout();
      Content = _carouselLayout;
     }
   }

The CarouselScroll will inherit the ScrollView object as this will be the bounding view for the CarouselLayout. We are also going to create a DataTemplate variable for setting the DataTemplate object inside the CarouselLayout. Then, in the constructor, we instantiate a new CarouselLayout object as the Content of the ScrollView.

Now let's add a custom binding object for the ItemsSource. Like a ListView, we will bind an...