Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development

Using ListView and BaseAdapter

Now let's implement a conversations list on Android. The Android equivalent of the UITableView and UITableViewSource iOS classes are ListView and BaseAdapter. There are parallel concepts for these Android classes, such as implementing abstract methods and recycling cells during scrolling. There are a few different types of adapters used in Android such as ArrayAdapter or CursorAdaptor, although BaseAdapter is generally best suited for simple lists.

Implementing the conversations screen

Let's implement our conversations screen. Let's begin by making a new Android Activity in your Activities folder named ConversationsActivity.cs. Let's start with only a couple of changes to the class definition as follows:

[Activity(Label ...