Xamarin.Forms Essential Training

Course details

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.

Learning objectives
Creating a Xamarin.Forms solution
Navigating between pages
Screen layouts and controls in Xamarin.Forms
Data binding
Adding style to a control
Using a Xamarin.Essentials package
Embedding native controls in your shared forms
Writing custom renderers

Concepts

Introduction

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

Xamarin.Forms

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

The Xamarin.Forms Shell

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

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

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

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