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Sharing context between Xamarin.Forms TabbedPages using Prism and NavigationParameters
Xamarin

Sharing context between Xamarin.Forms TabbedPages using Prism and NavigationParameters

TabbedPages in mobile apps are probably something we are all familiar with. From a user’s point of view, they are a logical separation of ideas or tasks. I recently found myself needing to implement a TabbedPage using Xamarin.Forms and Prism, but I was doing something out of the ordinary. I needed to share context between both of my pages. Basically, I wanted to allow users to input information in one of two ways.

  • John Taubensee
John Taubensee • 5 min read
Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Prism
Xamarin

Getting Started with Xamarin.Forms and Prism

I recently started a new Xamarin.Forms project. Being new to mobile development, I started by researching best practices for an “enterprise application.” By this, I mean I was looking for frameworks that support maintainability, testability, and generally encourage development best practices. While I’ve never created more than a “Hello World” application in Xamarin, I quickly learned about MVVM, and was reminded of some of the benefits of dependency injection. After playing around with a couple frameworks, I settled on using Prism.

  • John Taubensee
John Taubensee • 7 min read