Chapter 7.  Building a File Storage Application

In this chapter, we will walk through advanced development with Xamarin.Forms. We take a look at the use of Behaviors on UI elements. Then we will build a custom layout using the Layout <View> framework. We will also build our first SQLite database for storing text files. The following topics will be covered in this chapter: 

Expected knowledge:

• Basic Xamarin.Forms
• XAML
• MVVM
• SQL
• C# threading

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

• Project structure setup
• Building a data access layer using SQLite
• Building the ISQLiteStorage interface
• Additional threading techniques
• Creating the AsyncSemaphore
• Creating the AsyncLock
• Implementing native setup requirements for SQLite
• Implementing the IoC container and modules
• Implementing cross-platform logging
• Implementing the SQLiteStorage class
• Introduction to C# 6.0 syntax
• Handling alerts in view-models
• Building the IMethods interface
• Building the ExtendedContentPage
• Building a CarouselView using custom...