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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 and implementing ValueConverters in your app

In this section, we will begin creating the ImageConverter class for our TrackMyWalks solution. ValueConverters are an important concept in data binding, as they allow you to customize the appearance of a data property at the time it is bound. This process is quite similar to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on the Windows application development platform.

The Xamarin.Forms platform provides you with a number of ValueConverter interfaces as part of its API. These are extremely helpful as they allow you to toggle the visibility of elements based on a Boolean property, or display an image based on a String property.

Let's start creating the ImageConverter class for our TrackMyWalks app by performing the following the steps:

  1. Ensure that the TrackMyWalks solution is open in the Visual Studio for Mac IDE.
  2. Right-click...
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