Mastering Xamarin.Forms - Second Edition

Creating the main page

The main page of the app will serve as the entry point into the app and will display a list of existing trip log entries. Our trip log entries will be represented by a data model named TripLogEntry. Models are a key pillar in the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and data binding, which we will explore more in Chapter 2, MVVM and Data Binding; however, in this chapter, we will create a simple class that will represent the TripLogEntry model.

Let us now start creating the main page by performing the following steps:

1. First, add a new Xamarin.Forms XAML  ContentPage to the core project and name it MainPage.

 

2. Next, update the MainPage property of the App class in App.xaml.cs to a new instance of Xamarin.Forms.NavigationPage ...