Seven Mobile Apps in Seven Weeks

Day 2: Trending Up

Or, Building a Better View

Today we’ll work on improving the view. We’ll use the list of quotes we have from the API and display them in a ListView. Then we’ll see how to define styles that we can apply to each of the list items. Then we’ll add a second page to hold the user’s stock watch list and add a pivot control to allow navigation between each page. While we add these other views we’ll also see how to extract a reusable view component for the list of stocks so that we can use it on both pages. Let’s get started by introducing the ListView component.

Working with ListView

A ListView is a component that allows us to display repeating elements on a page. The other platforms have similar components, and Windows works pretty ...