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Xamarin Blueprints

You're reading from   Xamarin Blueprints Leverage the power of Xamarin to create stunning cross-platform and native apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887444
Length 516 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Williams Michael Williams
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Gallery Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a SpeechTalk Application 3. Building a GPS Locator Application 4. Building an Audio Player Application 5. Building a Stocklist Application 6. Building a Chat Application 7. Building a File Storage Application 8. Building a Camera Application

View-models with Xamarin native


After we add the libraries, let's start with the AudioPlayer.Portable project. Create a new folder called ViewModels, and add a new file called MainPageViewModel.cs. Let's start implementing our first view-model with MVVMCross:

namespace AudioPlayer.Portable.ViewModels 
{ 
    using MvvmCross.Core.ViewModels; 
 
    public class MainPageViewModel : MvxViewModel 
    { 
        public MainPageViewModel() 
        { 
        } 
   } 
} 

When we built our Xamarin.Forms view-models, we created our own base view-model for handling property changes; using this library we can cut a few corners with base properties. MvxViewModel has a similar implementation with handling property changes; for our MainPage, we are going to develop the same first page as the last chapter, so let's start with the private properties:

public class MainPageViewModel : MvxViewModel 
    { 
        #region Private Properties 
 
        private string _descriptionMessage = "Welcome to the Music...
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