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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 WalksMainPageViewModel using C#

Now that we have created our BaseViewModel class which will be used and inherited by each of the ViewModels that we create, the next step is to start creating the WalksMainPageViewModel class that will be used by our WalksMainPage.

The WalksMainPageViewModel ViewModel class will be used to populate our data model and display the information within our ListView by setting the BindingContext within the ContentPage.

Let's take a look at how we can achieve this by following these steps:

  1. Ensure that the TrackMyWalks solution is open within the Visual Studio for Mac IDE.
  2. Next, right-click on the ViewModels folder and choose Add|New File... from the pop-up menu.
  1. Then, choose the Empty Class option under the General section and enter WalksMainPageViewModel for the name of the class to be created, as shown in the following screenshot...
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