Mastering Xamarin UI Development by Daniel, Steven F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Mastering Xamarin UI Development

Mastering Xamarin UI Development Credits About the Author Acknowledgments About the Reviewers www.PacktPub.com

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1. Creating the TrackMyWalks Native App

Creating the TrackMyWalks solution

Updating the TrackMyWalks solution packages

Creating the TrackMyWalks model Creating the walks main page Creating the new walk entry content page Creating the walk trail content page

Adding the Xamarin.Forms.Maps NuGet package

Creating the DistanceTravelledPage content page Creating the Splash screen content page

Updating the Xamarin.Forms App class

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

Updating the walks main page to use the MVVM model

Implementing the walks entry page ViewModel

Updating the WalksEntryPage to use the MVVM model

Implementing the walk trail page ViewModel

Updating the WalksTrailPage to use the MVVM model

Implementing the DistanceTravelledViewModel

Updating the DistanceTravelledPage to use the MVVM model

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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

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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

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5. Customizing the User Interface

Creating the DataTemplate class for the TrackMyWalks app

Updating the walks main page to use the data template

Creating a TableView EntryCell custom picker for the iOS platform Creating the custom picker renderer class for the iOS platform

Updating the WalksEntryPage to use the custom picker renderer

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

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6. Working with Razor Templates

Understanding the Razor template engine Creating and implementing Razor templates within Xamarin Studio

Adding the SQLite.Net package to the BookLibrary solution

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

Updating the book library Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

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7. Incorporating API Data Access Using Microsoft Azure App Services

Setting up our TrackMyWalks app using Microsoft Azure

Adding the Json.Net NuGet package to the TrackMyWalks app Adding the HttpClient NuGet package to the TrackMyWalks app Updating the WalkEntries model to use the Json.Net framework

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

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8. Making Our App Social - Using the Facebook API

Setting up and registering the TrackMyWalks app with Facebook

Adding the Xamarin.Auth NuGet package to the TrackMyWalks app Adding the FaceBook SDK library to the TrackMyWalks app

Creating a Facebook user model for the TrackMyWalks app

Creating a FacebookCredentials class for the TrackMyWalks app Creating the Facebook Sign In to use within our TrackMyWalks app Creating the Facebook Sign In Class for TrackMyWalks (iOS) app

Updating the NavigationService Interface for the TrackMyWalks app

Updating the NavigationService class for the TrackMyWalks app

Updating the WalksPage to properly handle Facebook Sign In

Updating the WalksPage ViewModel to use our FaceBookApiUser Updating the DistanceTravelledPage for the TrackMyWalks app Updating the Xamarin.Forms App class to handle Facebook Sign In Enabling Facebook functionality within the TrackMyWalks app

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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

Setting up and initializing our TrackMyWalks app for UITest Implementing the CreateNewWalkEntry using the UITest.Framework

Adding the Xamarin Test Cloud Agent to the iOS project

Updating the TrackMyWalks AppDelegate class to handle Xamarin Test Cloud Agent

Running the TrackMyWalks UITests using Xamarin Studio Summary

10. Packaging and Deploying Your Xamarin.Forms Applications

Creating and setting up your iOS development team Creating the TrackMyWalks iOS development certificate

Obtaining the iOS development certificate from Apple Creating the App ID for the TrackMyWalks (iOS) application

Creating the TrackMyWalks development provisioning profile Preparing the TrackMyWalks (iOS) app for submission

Submitting the TrackMyWalks (iOS) app to iTunes Connect using Xamarin Studio

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