- Mastering Xamarin UI Development
- Mastering Xamarin UI Development
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1. Creating the TrackMyWalks Native App
- Creating the TrackMyWalks solution
- Creating the TrackMyWalks model
- Creating the walks main page
- Creating the new walk entry content page
- Creating the walk trail content page
- Creating the DistanceTravelledPage content page
- Creating the Splash screen content page
- Differences between Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio
- Running the TrackMyWalks app using the simulator
- Summary
- 2. MVVM and Data Binding
- Understanding the MVVM pattern architecture
- Implementing the MVVM ViewModels within your app
- Creating the WalkBaseViewModel for the TrackMyWalks app
- Implementing the WalksPageViewModel
- Implementing the walks entry page ViewModel
- Implementing the walk trail page ViewModel
- Implementing the DistanceTravelledViewModel
- Summary
- 3. Navigating within the MVVM Model - The Xamarin.Forms Way
- Understanding the Xamarin.Forms Navigation API
- Differences between the navigation and ViewModel approaches
- Implementing the navigation service within your app
- Creating the navigation service interface for the TrackMyWalks app
- Creating a navigation service to navigate within our ViewModels
- Updating the WalkBaseViewModel to use our navigation service
- Updating the walks main page ViewModel and navigation service
- Updating the walks main page to use the updated ViewModel
- Updating the walks entry page ViewModel and navigation service
- Updating the WalksEntryPage to use the updated ViewModel
- Updating the walks trail page ViewModel and navigation service
- Updating the WalksTrailPage to use the updated ViewModel
- Updating the distance travelled ViewModel and navigation service
- Updating the DistanceTravelledPage to use the updated ViewModel
- Updating the Xamarin.Forms.App class to use the navigation service
- Summary
- 4. Adding Location-Based Features within Your App
- Creating and using platform-specific services
- Creating the Location Service Interface for the TrackMyWalks app
- Creating the Location Service class for the Android platform
- Creating the Location Service class for the iOS platform
- Enabling background updates and getting the user's current location
- Updating the WalkEntryViewModel to use the location service
- Updating the DistanceTravelledViewModel to use the location service
- Updating the SplashPage to register our ViewModels
- Updating the MainActivity class to use Xamarin.Forms.Maps
- Updating the Xamarin.Forms App class to use platform specifics
- Summary
- Creating and using platform-specific services
- 5. Customizing the User Interface
- Creating the DataTemplate class for the TrackMyWalks app
- Creating a TableView EntryCell custom picker for the iOS platform
- Creating the custom picker renderer class for the iOS platform
- Creating PlatformEffects using the Effects API for the iOS platform
- Creating PlatformEffects using the Effects API for the Android platform
- Implementing value converters within the TrackMyWalks app
- Updating the WalkBaseViewModel to use our Boolean converter
- Updating the WalksPageViewModel to use our Boolean converter
- Updating the walks main page to use the updated ViewModel
- Updating the WalksTrailPage to use the updated ViewModel
- Updating the DistanceTravelledPage to use the updated ViewModel
- Updating the WalkCellDataTemplate class to use PlatformEffects
- Summary
- 6. Working with Razor Templates
- Understanding the Razor template engine
- Creating and implementing Razor templates within Xamarin Studio
- Creating and implementing the book library database model
- Creating and implementing the book database wrapper
- Creating and implementing the BookLibrary database wrapper
- Creating and implementing the book listing main page
- Creating and implementing the BookLibraryAdd Razor template
- Creating and implementing the BookLibraryEdit Razor template
- Creating and implementing the WebViewController class
- Summary
- 7. Incorporating API Data Access Using Microsoft Azure App Services
- Setting up our TrackMyWalks app using Microsoft Azure
- Creating the HTTP web service class for the TrackMyWalks app
- Creating the DataService API for the TrackMyWalks app
- Creating the DataService API class for the TrackMyWalks app
- Updating the WalkBaseViewModel to use our DataService API
- Updating the WalkEntryViewModel to use our DataService API
- Updating the WalksPageViewModel to use our DataService API
- Updating the WalksPage to use the updated ViewModel
- Updating the custom picker renderer class for the iOS platform
- Updating the WalksEntryPage to use the updated custom picker
- Summary
- 8. Making Our App Social - Using the Facebook API
- 9. Unit Testing Your Xamarin.Forms Apps Using the NUnit and UITest Frameworks
- Creating a unit test solution folder using Xamarin Studio
- Creating a unit test project using Xamarin Studio
- Adding the Moq NuGet package to the unit test project
- Adding the TrackMyWalks project to TrackMyWalks.UnitTests
- Creating and implementing the WalksTrailViewModel NUnit test class
- Creating and implementing the WalkEntryViewModel NUnit test class
- Running the TrackMyWalks.UnitTests using Xamarin Studio
- Creating a UI test project using Xamarin Studio
- Understanding the commonly used UITest methods
- Adding the Xamarin Test Cloud Agent to the iOS project
- Running the TrackMyWalks UITests using Xamarin Studio
- Summary
- 10. Packaging and Deploying Your Xamarin.Forms Applications
In this chapter, we updated our TrackMyWalks application and created a navigation service class that extends the default Xamarin.Forms.Navigation API, which provides us with a better method of performing ViewModel navigation. This separates the presentation aspects and business logic that are contained within the ViewModels.
In the next chapter, you'll learn how to create a location services class that will allow our TrackMyWalks app to retrieve location-based information, and determine the user's current location. You'll also learn how to set up our app to handle background location updates. You will also learn how to incorporate platform-specific features within your app, depending on the platform that is being run.
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