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

0. Introduction

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

1. Xamarin.Forms

04 - Xamarin.Forms in context
05 - Create a Xamarin.Forms solution
06 - The Xamarin.Forms application
07 - Initialize Xamarin.Forms
08 - Xamarin.Forms pages
09 - Navigate between pages

2. The Xamarin.Forms Shell

10 - Create a Shell application
11 - Organize Shell contents
12 - Customize the flyout
13 - Choose a UI framework

3. Layout and Controls

14 - Xamarin.Forms layouts
15 - Create a page using StackLayout
16 - Use RelativeLayout
17 - Databinding basics - Display data
18 - Bind and display a list of data
19 - Use CollectionView Grid layout
20 - Create a form page with Grid layout
21 - Binding to entry fields
22 - Use ScrollView
23 - Add style to a control
24 - Trigger a style by property value

4. Native Platform Integration

25 - Use OnPlatform
26 - Use OnIdiom
27 - Set up the dependency service
28 - Android service implementation
29 - iOS service implementation
30 - Install Xamarin.Essentials
31 - Use a Xamarin.Essentials package

5. Native Controls and Renderers

32 - Prepare to use native controls
33 - Add an iOS control
34 - Add an Android control
35 - Prepare for custom renderers
36 - Android renderer
37 - iOS renderer

Conclusion

38 - Next steps