Showing posts with label fragments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fragments. Show all posts

Monday, June 03, 2013

MvvmCross Android app with dynamic fragments

It’s not much different than implementing the app with Java, except using the MvvmCross MvxXXXX classes.
Let’s do a simple exercise: have an activity loading a fragment by code behind.
Here’s the code we need:

1. a MvxFragmentActivity derived class.  It is the corresponding to Android’s FragmentActivity class

[Activity(Label = "View for FirstViewModel")]
public class FirstView : MvxFragmentActivity
{
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
{
base.OnCreate(bundle);
SetContentView(Resource.Layout.FirstView);
this.AddChildView ();
}
void AddChildView()
{
var childView = new ChildView () {
ViewModel = new ChildViewModel()
};
var fm = this.SupportFragmentManager;
var ft = fm.BeginTransaction ();
ft.Add (Resource.Id.childViewHost, childView, "childView");
ft.Commit ();
}


2. a corresponding Android layout for it: FirstView.axml
  it needs to have a host widget for the fragment, let’s say a FrameLayout called childViewHost
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:local="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:id="@+id/childViewHost" />
</FrameLayout >

 
  3. a MvxFragment derived class. Note the MvvmCross BindingInflate method which makes binding work in the fragment
public class ChildView : MvxFragment
{
public override View OnCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
var ignored = base.OnCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState);
return this.BindingInflate(Resource.Layout.ChildView, null);
}
}
4. a corresponding Android layout  for it: ChildView.axml. Let’s have a textbox bound to the ViewModel’s property
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:local="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">

<TextView
local:MvxBind="Text Hello"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/textView2" />
</LinearLayout>