Xamarin Mobile Application Development for Android - Second Edition

Hooking up POIListViewAdapter

We have the list layout and adapter ready; let's now proceed to hook up the data in poiListView. We need to switch back to the POIListActivity class and add the following changes:

1. Declare the following variables inside the POIListActivity class:

   private ListView poiListView;
   private ProgressBar progressBar;
   private List<PointOfInterest> poiListData;
   private POIListViewAdapter poiListAdapter;

2. Now, in the OnCreate method, instantiate the ListView and ProgressBar:

   poiListView = FindViewById<ListView> (Resource.Id.poiListView);
   progressBar = FindViewById<ProgressBar> (Resource.Id.progressBar);

3. For now, we will create an Async method that is responsible for downloading the data from the server and displaying it in POIListActivity ...