Mastering Xamarin.Forms Development: 1 Pages, Layout, and Navigation

Learn about some layouts and features that can help make your development in MAUI more effective and help take your apps to the next level.

Introduction

• What's beyond the basics
• What you need to know
• Installing course collateral

1. Working with Layouts

• Understanding the layout cycle
• StackLayout vs. Grid
• FlexLayout
• AbsoluteLayout
• TableView
• Challenge: Converting a design to code
• Solution: Converting a design to code

2. CollectionView vs. ListView

• Differences in these controls
• Controlling layouts with the CollectionView
• Collapsing groups with the CollectionView
• Dealing with large lists
• Creating a CollectionView with dynamic data loading
• Challenge: Working with collections
• Solution: Working with collections

3. Beyond Basic XAML

• Referencing custom views
• Constructors and factories
• Specifying generics in XAML
• Creating markup extensions
• Custom view states
• Challenge: Creating a XAML form
• Solution: Creating a XAML form

4. Advanced Data Binding

• Ancestor bindings
• Ancestor bindings example
• Binding to views
• Limitations of value converter parameters
• Value converters with multiple bindings
• When data binding goes wrong
• Challenge: Working with data binding
• Solution: Working with data binding

5. Animations

• How and when to use animations
• Introduction to basic animations
• Controlling animations with easing functions
• Creating custom animations, part 1
• Creating custom animations, part 2
• When MAUI animations aren't enough
• Challenge: Animations
• Solution: Animations

Conclusion

• Future learning