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Mastering Xamarin UI Development - Second Edition

By : Steven F. Daniel
Book Image

Mastering Xamarin UI Development - Second Edition

By: Steven F. Daniel

Overview of this book

This book will provide you with the knowledge and practical skills that are required to develop real-world Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms applications. You’ll learn how to create native Android app that will interact with the device camera and photo gallery, and then create a native iOS sliding tiles game. You will learn how to implement complex UI layouts and create customizable control elements based on the platform, using XAML and C# 7 code to interact with control elements within your XAML ContentPages. You’ll learn how to add location-based features by to your apps by creating a LocationService class and using the Xam.Plugin.Geolocator cross-platform library, that will be used to obtain the current device location. Next, you’ll learn how to work with and implement animations and visual effects within your UI using the PlatformEffects API, using C# code. At the end of this book, you’ll learn how to integrate Microsoft Azure App Services and use the Twitter APIs within your app. You will work with the Razor Templating Engine to build a book library HTML5 solution that will use a SQLite.net library to store, update, retrieve, and delete information within a local SQLite database. Finally, you will learn how to write unit tests using the NUnit and UITest frameworks.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Updating the WebViewController class using C#

In this section, we will begin implementing the code for our BookLibrary application that will be responsible for communicating and interacting with our Razor template pages, as well as handling the actions associated with each Razor template page. The WebViewController class will communicate with and use our BookDatabase class in order to handle the addition, retrieval, and deletion of book items.

Let's start by updating the WebViewController.cs by going through the following steps:

  1. Locate and open the WebViewController.cs file, which is located in the BookLibrary project, and ensure that it is displayed within the code editor. Enter the following highlighted code sections:
    //
// WebViewController.cs
// Web Container for representing Razor Templates within a Web View
//
// Created by Steven F. Daniel on 02...