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Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788995511

Length 584 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Tools

Xamarin

Concepts

Cross Platform Mobile Development

Author (1):

Steven F. Daniel

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

www.PacktPub.com

Contributors

Acknowledgments

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

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Index

Creating and implementing the BookLibraryListing page

In this section, we will begin by building the user interface for our BookLibraryListing using HTML by defining HTML tags. This Razor template page will use our BookItem data model to visually display all items that have been added to the BookItem database table, as well as allow the user to create new book items.

Let's start by creating the user interface for our BookLibraryListing by going through the following steps:

Right-click on the Views folder and choose Add | New File... from the pop-up menu.

Then, choose the Preprocessed Razor Template option under the Text Templating section and enter BookLibraryListing for the name of the Razor template to be created, as shown in the following screenshot:

Creating the Book Library Listing Razor Template

Then, click on the New button to allow the wizard to proceed and create the new file, as shown in the preceding screenshot. Now that we have created our BookLibraryListing Razor template page, we...