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Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition

You're reading from   Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android, Second Edition Develop, test, and deliver fully-featured Android applications using Xamarin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280375
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Anatomy of an Android App FREE CHAPTER 2. The Xamarin.Android Architecture 3. Creating the Points Of Interest App 4. Adding a List View 5. Adding a Details View 6. Making Your App Orientation-aware 7. Designing for Multiple Screen Sizes 8. Creating Data Storage Mechanisms 9. Making POIApp Location Aware 10. Adding the Camera App Integration 11. Publishing an App to the App Store Index

Creating the POIDetail layout

So far, we have built the POIApp to display the list of POIs fetched from the server. Currently, the list view displays limited information about POIs such as name, address, image, and distance. Let's now extend the POIApp by adding another activity that displays detailed information of the selected POI. The POI details activity will be revealed only when the user taps on any of the POI item from the list or when the user selects the New (+) action from the navigation bar. Additionally, the details activity will allow the user to create a new POI, update, or delete the existing POI.

Keeping all the preceding use cases in mind, let's create a new layout for POI details:

  1. Select the Resources/layout folder in the Solution pad.
  2. Right-click on Add and select New File.
  3. In the New File dialog box, click on Android and select Layout, enter POI detail in the Name field, and select New.

Notice that a new file is created with LinearLayout as the top-level container...

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