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Xamarin.Forms Projects

You're reading from   Xamarin.Forms Projects Build multiplatform mobile apps and a game from scratch using C# and Visual Studio 2019

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839210051
Length 504 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Xamarin 2. Building Our First Xamarin.Forms App FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a News App Using Xamarin.Forms Shell 4. A Matchmaking App with a Rich UX Using Animations 5. Building a Photo Gallery App Using CollectionView and CarouselView 6. Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps 7. Building a Weather App for Multiple Form Factors 8. Setting Up a Backend for a Chat App Using Azure Services 9. Building a Real-Time Chat Application 10. Creating an Augmented Reality Game 11. Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog Using Machine Learning 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Touching up ListView

ListView could use a couple of minor changes. The first change is formatting the due date string to a more human-readable format and the second is changing the color of the Completed label to a nice green tint:

  1. Open up Views/MainView.xaml.
  2. Locate the labels that bind Item.Due and Item.Completed in ListView:
<Label Grid.Column="1"
Grid.Row="1"
Text="{Binding Item.Due, StringFormat='{0:MMMM d, yyyy}'}"
FontSize="Micro" />

<Label Grid.Column="1"
Grid.Row="1"
HorizontalTextAlignment="End"
Text="Completed"
IsVisible="{Binding Item.Completed}"
FontSize="Micro"
TextColor="{StaticResource CompletedColor}" />

We added a formatting string to the binding to format the date using a specific format. In this case, we used the 0:MMMM d, yyyy format, which will display the date as a string in the format of, for example, May 5, 2020.

We also added a text color to the Completed label that is only visible if an item is completed. We do this by referencing our dictionary in App.xaml.

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Published in: Jun 2020
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781839210051
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