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Mastering Xamarin UI Development

You're reading from   Mastering Xamarin UI Development Build robust and a maintainable cross-platform mobile UI with Xamarin and C# 7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788995511
Length 584 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Steven F. Daniel Steven F. Daniel
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Preface 1. Setting Up Visual Studio for Mac FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a PhotoLibrary App Using Android 3. Building a SlidingTiles Game Using Xamarin.iOS 4. Creating the TrackMyWalks Native App 5. MVVM and Data Binding 6. Navigating Within the Mvvm Model 7. Adding Location-based Features Within Your App 8. Customizing the User Interface 9. Working with Animations in Xamarin.Forms 10. Working with the Razor Templating Engine 11. Incorporating Microsoft Azure App Services 12. Making Our App Social Using the Twitter API 13. Unit Testing Your Xamarin.Forms Apps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating the WalksMainPage interface using XAML

In this section, we will begin by defining the user interface for our WalksMainPage using XAML. This page will be used to display a list of trail walks information, as well as information relating to the distance and difficulty of each trail. There are a number of ways you can go about presenting this information, but for the purposes of our app, we will be using a ListView to present this information.

Let's start by creating the user interface for our WalksMainPage by performing the following steps:

  1. First, create a new folder within the TrackMyWalks project called Views, as you did in the previous section for Models.
  2. Next, right-click on the Views folder, and choose Add | New File... from the pop-up menu.
  3. Then, choose the Forms ContentPage XAML option under the Forms section and enter WalksMainPage for the name of the XAML...
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