Adding grouping and a jump index list
Grouping is essential in many cases. Most often, you will see grouping in a settings page that breaks the rows into categories. It can be applied for anything that makes sense in a parent-child fashion; maybe you want to show grouped orders with their corresponding items.
In iOS, we enable the jump list built-in support, which will make visible a small list to the right of the screen that you can tap and navigate to the corresponding index of the collection.
How to do it…
- In Visual Studio, go to the top menu and select File | New | Project. Choose the Blank App (Xamarin.Forms Portable) template, name it XamFormsAddGrouping, and click OK.
- Right-click the PCL, Add | Class…, name it
Character.cs, and click Add. Find ...
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