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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 WalkDistancePage interface using XAML

In this section, we will begin by defining the user interface for our WalkDistancePage using XAML. This page will be used to display a full-screen map with a pin placeholder that, when tapped, will display information relating to the chosen trail from the ListView that's contained within our WalksMainPage.

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

  1. First, create a new Forms ContentPage XAML called WalkDistancePage, like you did in the section entitled Creating the WalksMainPage interface using XAML, located within this chapter.
  2. Next, ensure that the WalkDistancePage.xaml file is displayed within the code editor and enter the following code snippet:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin...
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