Xamarin.Forms Essential Training

Get started with Xamarin.Forms. Learn how to use this cross-platform UI toolkit to build fully native mobile apps using C#.

Xamarin.Forms is a cross-platform UI toolkit that developers can leverage to build fully native mobile apps using C#. It can speed up and simplify the development process by enabling you to create a single, shared UI that renders natively on different platforms. In this course, Matt Milner helps you get started with this powerful toolkit. To help you get a practical understanding of Xamarin.Forms, Matt steps through how to build a Xamarin app that uses Xamarin.Forms for the UI. Matt goes over the Xamarin.Forms application model, shows how to create a navigation page, and details the various layouts and controls that help you design your interfaces. He also shares techniques for dealing with platform-specific needs, shows how to embed native controls in your Xamarin.Forms page, and more.

Introduction

• Cross-platform mobile app development
• What you should know
• A look at the app you're building

1. Xamarin.Forms

• Xamarin.Forms in context
• Create a Xamarin.Forms solution
• The Xamarin.Forms application
• Initialize Xamarin.Forms
• Xamarin.Forms pages
• Navigate between pages

2. The Xamarin.Forms Shell

• Create a Shell application
• Organize Shell contents
• Customize the flyout
• Choose a UI framework

3. Layout and Controls

• Xamarin.Forms layouts
• Create a page using StackLayout
• Use RelativeLayout
• Databinding basics: Display data
• Bind and display a list of data
• Use CollectionView Grid layout
• Create a form page with Grid layout
• Binding to entry fields
• Use ScrollView
• Add style to a control
• Trigger a style by property value

4. Native Platform Integration

• Use OnPlatform
• Use OnIdiom
• Set up the dependency service
• Android service implementation
• iOS service implementation
• Install Xamarin.Essentials
• Use a Xamarin.Essentials package

5. Native Controls and Renderers

• Prepare to use native controls
• Add an iOS control
• Add an Android control
• Prepare for custom renderers
• Android renderer
• iOS renderer

Conclusion

• Next steps