Build Real World Application with Xamarin Forms Part 3

Learn to create a Xamarin.Forms project in Visual Studio, selecting the cross-platform template and dotnet standard, starting from an empty template, and organizing Android and iOS projects.

Explore the architecture of a Xamarin forms project, detailing a three-project solution, dependencies, app.xaml and code-behind, and ui pages, then run and extend with a home page.

Create and organize now playing, upcoming, and latest movies pages in a bottom tabbed page using Xamarin Forms, including icons and Android bottom bar configuration.

Explore the application backend by examining a cinema API with now playing, upcoming, latest, and ticket endpoints; learn GET data retrieval, POST ticketing, and the API key requirement.

Learn how to obtain an API key, use it in request headers with Postman, and fetch now playing and upcoming movie data from the API.

Create model classes in a Xamarin Forms app, organizing them in a models folder and defining properties for API data such as upcoming movie, latest movie, and book ticket.

Create a service layer to fetch now playing movies from the API, configure an HTTP client with the API key, perform a get request, and deserialize JSON into movie objects.

Implement a post request to book tickets by serializing a bookTicket object to json, then send via http client using async with an API key header.

Create a now playing movies page UI in Xamarin.Forms Part 3 by building a ListView with a two-column grid, framed image, and binding titles, director, duration, language, and rating.

binds now playing movies data to a Xamarin.Forms UI by binding labels to movie name, director, duration, language, and rating, and binds the cover image from the API.

Implement code-behind for the now playing movies page with an observable collection, loading now playing movies via API in on appearing, and prevent repeated calls with a static first flag.

Navigate from the list to a now playing movie detail page in Xamarin forms, passing the selected movie to render a grid UI with image, labels, and a ticket button.

Expose now playing movie page controls in code behind, bind details such as movie name, cover image, duration, language, and cost, and wire play and book ticket actions.

Embed YouTube videos in a Xamarin Forms app using a web view iframe, passing the trailer link from the API, and navigate from now playing to the video page.

Build a book ticket page in a Xamarin Forms app using stack layouts, frames for times, entry fields, a ticket picker, and navigation to the book ticket page.

Develop the book ticket page in Xamarin Forms Part 3 by wiring xml controls, passing data from the now playing page, computing total price, and placing the order via api.

Learn to build an upcoming movies page with a syncfusion list view, switching from linear to grid layout by setting span count and defining an item template for binding images.

Consume the api to populate an upcoming movies list, bind it to the list view via an observable collection in the code behind, and prevent blinking with a first-time flag.

Developers learn to handle Syncfusion ListView item tap events to navigate to a video page and play a movie trailer using the retrieved trailer link from the upcoming movie data.

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