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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)

Creating and implementing the BookLibraryListing page

In this section, we will begin by building the user interface for our BookLibraryListing using HTML by defining HTML tags. This Razor template page will use our BookItem data model to visually display all items that have been added to the BookItem database table, as well as allow the user to create new book items.

Let's start by creating the user interface for our BookLibraryListing by going through the following steps:

  1. Right-click on the Views folder and choose Add | New File... from the pop-up menu.
  1. Then, choose the Preprocessed Razor Template option under the Text Templating section and enter BookLibraryListing for the name of the Razor template to be created, as shown in the following screenshot:
Creating the Book Library Listing Razor Template
  1. Then, click on the New button to allow the wizard to proceed and...