Chapter 7. Bind to the Data
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Binding data in code
- Binding data in XAML
- Configuring two-way data binding
- Using value converters
Introduction
As a mobile developer, you create different types of applications and the majority will interact with data; they are data-driven. These apps display and manipulate data from a source, local database, filesystem, or from a remote server. From any type of persistent storage, you create classes that represent the data and in many cases transform and present them to a view. In Xamarin applications, the MVVM pattern is a common approach to design such applications. To learn more about this pattern, refer to Chapter 5, Dude, Where's my Data? and Chapter 4, Different ...
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