justinhorner/azdevelopnet-xamarin-shell

Xamarin Shell Sample Project

Xamrin Shell Presentation

Created by: Justin Horner - [email protected] - April 15, 2020

This presentation hopes to explain to the Arizona - Xamarin Mobile Development group some of the benefits (and drawbacks) to Xamarin Shell. The presentation is in .odp format and can be read by LibreOffice. The associated project was based off of the example Xamarin Shell project included in Visual Studio with modifications made to show how easily you can add new pages / features to a Shell application. The project has been tested in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac on Android and iOS simulators and on Visual Studio 2019 for Windows on an Android simulator (I had to unload the iOS project to get the solution to build on my Windows box).

Helpful Links

- Xamarin Shell Fundamentals
	- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/shell/create
- Telerik
	- https://www.telerik.com/blogs/an-introduction-to-xamarin-forms-shell
- All Things Xamarin.Forms Shell - Shane Neuville
	- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFNmLE7pVl4&t=6h43m45s
- Xamarin Forms Shell
	- https://42interactive.com/xamarin-forms-shell/
- 'My two cents on Xamarin Forms Shell'
	- https://15mgm15.blog/2019/07/05/my-two-cents-on-xamarin-forms-shell/
- Samples:
	- Xaminals (Search)
		- https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/tree/master/UserInterface/Xaminals
- Design examples:
	- https://github.com/davidortinau/VisualChallenge/pulls
	- https://github.com/davidortinau/VisualChallenge/pulls
	- https://github.com/pauldipietro/CollectionViewChallenge/pulls

Presentation / Project

- Repo URL
	- https://github.com/justinhorner/azdevelopnet-xamarin-shell
- Project Notes: 
	- darkSky API:
		- I used this API for the 'weather' portion of the project because it is a simple and fast weather API.  However, the API is going off-line in the future and the service is not generating new API keys.  If you wish to try out the project, I can provide you with my test API key (just contact the author).

Project Notes

- Styling / Market
	- added some colors and styles to app.xaml
	- added component top 
- Weather
	- add simple API call to fetch weather
	- implement location fetching w/ 'Nearby' button
- Wikipedia & Details
	- example of search delegate
	- more Xamarin.Essentials usage
	- example of navigation to viewModel