Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development

Adding a friends list screen

The next fairly important screen is that of our friends list. When creating a new conversation, the app will load a list of friends to start a conversation with. We'll follow a very similar pattern to load our list of conversations.

To begin, we'll create UIBarButtonItem that navigates to a new controller named FriendsController by performing the following steps:

1. Double-click on the MainStoryboard.storyboard file to open it in the iOS designer.
2. Add a new Table View Controller to the storyboard.
3. Select your view controller and click on the Properties pane and make sure you have selected the Widget tab.
4. Enter FriendsController in the Class field.
5. Scroll down to the View Controller section, enter Friends in the Title field. ...