We can make a simple upgrade to show images by applying a template to each ListView item.īy changing the template, we can quickly add an image to each of our shows.
Out of the box, the ListView displays text only, calling the ToString() method on each data item. ListView TemplatesĪlthough we're up-and-running with our cross-platform app, it looks rather generic. also, I used styles to hide most of the layout and appearance properties those lines aren't displayed here. In just a few lines of code *, we have a working app! Out of the box, the ListView can load and display our data.
In our ListView, we use that context by specifying for the ItemSource.Īt this point, we're ready to build and run our project. We set our ContentPage's BindingContext to point at our DataFactory. The data binding feature in Xamarin.Forms simplifies some of the traditional work we might have to do to load data. We'll start with a single page with a ListView for all of our TV shows (and a Label for our list title). We have a helper class called DataFactory which instantiates and calls the IContentService. We have an IContentService that loads a list of our shows ( ShowViewModels) from the API. Building An Android Phone Appįor this post, we'll use some existing APIs to show our favorite TV shows in a list. Xamarin.Forms provides even more shared functionality: with Xamarin.Forms, we can even build our views using a set of controls common to all of our target platforms. With Xamarin, we can build one set of back-end tests and code in C# and share the same code among all of those platforms. For the C# developer, Xamarin is a useful tool for deployment to more than one platform, such as Windows, Android, iOS, or in our case, Fire TV. NET's inception, my language of choice has been C#. NET developer to build a Fire TV app with C#? With the right tools, it's pretty easy a Fire TV app is just an Android app optimized for viewing on a TV.
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