Com.MarcusTS.UI.XamForms 2.0.3

Xamarin.Forms Specific

A Light-Weight Framework for Modern, Animated Apps Using Responsive Tasks

We have said -- more than once -- that a framework is a way of doing something very badly while pretending to save time. Projects like Prism break more rules than a guest with Tourette's Syndrome at a tea party. They claim to "take care of the coding for you". But they do it by violating design principles and coding standards. Those ideals aren't just "polite rules for nice people". They are what make an app safe, reliable, manageable, scalable, affordable, and user-friendly. Design is everything.

A real framework would leverage design principles to create a light-weight programming platform that promotes an exciting, involving user experience through an animated UI. It would cure Xamarin's limitations. It would aspire to greatness, but without trying to take over the world.

That's where our humble library comes in. It isn't a black box. It is tiny compare to so-called frameworks. You can easily modify it or combine it with other tools. Let's compare approaches to other coding paradigms:

We Even Produced a Complete Demo App

For (a lot more detail on how we do this for you, see the Modern App Demo on GitHub. (This is not a NuGet library because it is not re-usable as a component. Just download the code and customize it as you see fit. It is 100% runnable with a few demo views.)

Yes, You Can Still Use XAML

{Sigh}

The code in this project responds to any generic type. That can be a view created in XAML or in code:

protected async Task ChangeContentView<InterfaceT, ClassT>(object viewModel)
    where ClassT : View, InterfaceT
    where InterfaceT : class
{
    { code omitted }

    await ChangeTheContent().WithoutChangingContext();

    // PRIVATE METHODS
    async Task ChangeTheContent()
    {
        var newView = _diContainer.RegisterAndResolveAsInterface<ClassT, InterfaceT>();

The Modern App Demo consumes this in the Master View Presenter:

   public class MasterViewPresenter : 
       MasterViewPresenterBase, IMasterViewPresenter
   {
      protected override async Task RespondToViewModelChange(object newModule)
      {

         if (newModule is IDashboardViewModel)
         {
            await ChangeContentView<IDashboardTitledFlexViewHost, 
            DashboardTitledFlexViewHost>(newModule).WithoutChangingContext();
         }
         else if (newModule is ISettingsViewModel)
         {
            await ChangeContentView<ISettingsTitledFlexViewHost,
            SettingsTitledFlexViewHost>(newModule).WithoutChangingContext();
         }
         else if (newModule is IAccountsViewModel)
         {
            await ChangeContentView<IAccountsTitledFlexViewHost, 
            AccountsTitledFlexViewHost>(newModule).WithoutChangingContext();
         }
         else if (newModule is ILogInViewModel)
         {
            await ChangeContentView<ILogInTitledFlexViewHost, 
            LogInTitledFlexViewHost>(newModule).WithoutChangingContext();
         }
         else if (newModule is ICreateAccountViewModel)
         {
            await ChangeContentView<ICreateAccountTitledFlexViewHost, 
            CreateAccountTitledFlexViewHost>(newModule).WithoutChangingContext();
         }
         else if (newModule is ICreationSuccessViewModel)
         {
            await ChangeContentView<ICreationSuccessTitledFlexViewHost, 
            CreationSuccessTitledFlexViewHost>(newModule).WithoutChangingContext();
         }
      }

Simply replace any of these calls to ChangeContentView with a class and interface pointing to your XAML file.

The Path from SharedForms to Here

You can still use our original SharedForms library for your apps. This library leverages some of it, but in most ways, supercedes it due to the inclusion of the Response Tasks Library. Once you have included a NuGet reference for this project, you might not need to directly reference SharedForms again.

This Project Is Open Source; Enjoy Our Entire Public Suite

Shared Utils (MAUI Ready!)

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NuGet

The Smart DI Container (MAUI Ready!)

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NuGet

Responsive Tasks (MAUI Ready!)

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NuGet

PlatformIndependentShared (MAUI Ready!)

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NuGet

UI.XamForms

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NuGet

The Modern App Demo

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