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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Building the user interface


It's now time to build the user interface screens; we are going to start by building the view-models. Inside the FileStorage.Portable project, add a new folder called ViewModels, add a new file called MainPageViewModel.cs, and implement the following:

public class MainPageViewModel : ViewModelBase
  {
     #region Private Properties
     private string _descriptionMessage = "Welcome to the Filing Room";
     private string _FilesTitle = "Files";
     private string _exitTitle = "Exit";
     private ICommand _locationCommand;
     private ICommand _exitCommand;
     private ISQLiteStorage _storage;
     #endregion
  }

We include the ISQLiteStorage object in this view-model because we will be creating the database tables when this view-model is created. Don't forget we need to implement the public properties for all private properties; the following are two properties to get you started:

#region Public Properties
public ICommand LocationCommand
  {
    get
     {
...