Summary
In this chapter, we built a simple three-page app with static data, leveraging the most basic concepts of the Xamarin.Forms toolkit. For example, we used the default Xamarin.Forms navigation APIs to move between the three pages, which we will refactor in Chapter 3, Navigation Service to use a more flexible, custom navigation service.
Now that we have built the foundation of the app, including the basic UI for each page within the app, we'll begin enhancing the app with better architecture design patterns, live data with offline syncing, nicer looking UI elements, and tests.
In the next chapter, we will introduce the MVVM pattern and data-binding ...
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