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Mastering Xamarin.Forms

Mastering Xamarin.Forms

By : Hernandez, Ed Snider
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Mastering Xamarin.Forms

Mastering Xamarin.Forms

4.4 (15)
By: Hernandez, Ed Snider

Overview of this book

Discover how to extend and build upon the components of the Xamarin.Forms toolkit to develop effective, robust mobile app architecture. Starting with an app built with the basics of the Xamarin.Forms toolkit, we'll go step by step through several advanced topics to create a solution architecture rich with the benefits of good design patterns and best practices. We'll start by introducing a core separation between the app's user interface and the app's business logic by applying the MVVM pattern and data-binding. Then we will focus on building out a layer of plugin-like services that handle platform-specific utilities such as navigation and geo-location, as well as how to loosely use these services in the app with inversion of control and dependency injection. Next we'll connect the app to a live web-based API and set up offline synchronization. Then, we'll dive into testing the app logic through unit tests. Finally, we will setup Visual Studio App Center to automate building, testing, distributing and monitoring the app.
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Registering dependencies

As mentioned earlier, each dependency injection library implements the pattern slightly differently. In this section, we will use Ninject to start adding dependency injection capabilities to our TripLog app. Ninject allows you to create Modules, which are responsible for adding services to the IoC container. The modules are then added to a Kernel that is used to resolve the services in other areas of the app.

You can create a single Ninject module or many, depending on how your app is structured and how you want to organize your services. For the TripLog app, we will have a Ninject Module in each platform project, which is responsible for registering that platform's specific service implementations. We will also create a Ninject module in the core library, which will be responsible for registering dependencies that live in the core library, such as...

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