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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

Updating the TrackMyWalks.iOS AppDelegate

In this section, we need to make changes to the AppDelegate class for our TrackMyWalks.iOS project so that we can initialize our Xamarin.FormsMaps library, otherwise we won't be able to use any of the map features.

The AppDelegate class gets notified whenever the object to which it is connected to reaches certain events or states. In this case, the Application Delegate is an object which receives notifications whenever the UIApplication object reaches certain states. In many respects, it is a specialized one-to-one Observer pattern.

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

  1. First, expand the TrackMyWalks.iOS solution project that is contained within the TrackMyWalks solution.
  1. Next, double-click on the AppDelegate.cs file, ensuring that it is displayed within the code editor, and enter the following...
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