Xamarin Guide 10: Move ItemTemplate to Resources

Scope

This Xamarin Workshop Guide was created for the The Portuguese National Meeting of IT Students (ENEI) by Sara Silva and the original content is available here. To extend it to the global community, it was published in a new project called Xam Community Workshop and the main goal is for any developer, or user group to customize it for their events.

Before reading this article you must read:

• Xamarin Guide 1: Create a Xamarin Forms Project
• Xamarin Guide 2: Create the Model and the Data Source
• Xamarin Guide 3: Create the SessionsView
• Xamarin Guide 4: Create the SessionDetailsView
• Xamarin Guide 5: Add ShareService
• Xamarin Guide 6: Add Splash Screen, Name and Version
• Xamarin Guide 7: Add Support For WinRT Apps
• Xamarin Guide 8: Change the App.cs to App.xaml
• Xamarin Guide 9: Use MVVM Pattern

Guide 10. Move ItemTemplate to Resources

In the last two steps you learned how to create an App class using an XAML approach and how to use the MVVM pattern, to separate the UI from the logic. In this step you learn how extract the DataTemplate from the listview’s Itemtemplate to Resources.

In the App.xaml prepare the code to add the DataTemplate, for that you need to define the Application’s Resources as in the following: