In this post, we will take a look at the AdMobView.cs and NotesPage used in our WetYourWhistle mobile app. Why do we have a routine called AdMobView and why have you seen references to AdMob so far? Because everyone deserves to make a dollar or two from all of their […]
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Now we get to create the individual Views used in our Xamarin cross-platform mobile app. Because many of these are quite similar, we will be excluding much of the code in XAML page documents below the first. As I am sure you already know, proper app design means separation of […]
Now we will be able to make the connection between the MySQL database designed previously and the individual models. This connection is enabled using the interface, service and Item Manager files shown at the left. Let’s begin by explaining the interface and service together. As with the other interface we […]
We will begin with our Models directory. This is not necessarily created by the template chosen in the beginning, so you may need to right-click on the Portable Class Library (PCL) project and Add-New Folder. As you can see, most of these are created as pairs with Item and Records […]
We have a single Xamarin solution with a main project along with an individual project for each of the platforms being targeted. In this case, we are looking at the individual app designed for New York, called NYWineryHopper. We also see the Android and iOS projects. If desired, we could […]
You may be thinking – “I am a web designer, I don’t know how to use MS SQL and SQL Studio.” The good news is that in most cases you don’t need these to design a database for your RESTful site. When logging into your web host, they should provide […]
In the article for step 5, we began to get into the main functions of this read-only REST service. We now know how to gather unique counties and regions from our database, and will now retrieve the data based on region/county selections or partial name entered, We are still working in […]
In the article for step 4, we looked at the contents of the trivia folder and the PHP code designed to retrieve the question/hint/answer for the id being fed in as a parameter. Over the next two steps we will be getting into the main functionality of this REST service […]
In the article for step 3, we looked at the shared directory and the getPaging function. Although these are not used in our final solution – Wet Ur Whis(tel), we have gained the experience of creating shared functions. Next we will cover the trivia folder and the PHP code used […]
In the article for step 2, we continued building building our Representational State Transfer (REST) service by looking at files located in the objects directory. Next, we will look at the shared directory. Our final project, located at https://winehopper.app does not use this directory. Shared will contain a file such […]