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Dan Hermes and Nima MazloumiBuilding Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAMLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4030-4_6

6. Making a Scrollable List

Dan Hermes1  and Nima Mazloumi2
(1)
Boston, MA, USA
(2)
San Francisco, CA, USA
 

Choosing quickly from a long list of items is one of the key offerings of the mobile UI. The limited real estate on mobile phone screens makes data grids a challenge and leads to extensive and creative use of lists. Grouping of items, scrolling, gesture sensitivity, and images make lists one of the most versatile and reusable data-bound tools available. Lists are to mobile development what the data grid is to web development.

This chapter covers the ListView class which allows us to make a scrollable, selectable ...

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