[mono-android] Anyone interested in Silverlight style DataBinding for Droid?

[Stuart Lodge]

If anyone else out there is porting from WP7 to Droid and is looking for
some MonoDroid Databinding code, then I've posted some as part of MvvmCross
over on GitHub - https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross/wiki/Tutorial

The full story is quite long... but the short story is that the code lets
you add JSON databinding statements to your axml like:

 <TextView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
    local:MvxBind="{'Text':{'Path':'TheText','Converter':'StringReverse'}}"
    />

which means that your Android View C# code can be entirely empty and that
you can reuse some of your value converters across wp7 and droid...

There's also a MT version of this which works on some MonoTouch.Dialog
elements - e.g.

          this.Root = new RootElement("Simple Text Property")
                          {
                              new Section("Display")
                                  {
                                      new
StringElement("Current").Bind(this, "{'Value':{'Path':'TheText'}}"),
                                      new
StringElement("Length").Bind(this,
"{'Value':{'Path':'TheText','Converter':'StringLength'}}"),
                                      new
StringElement("Reversed").Bind(this,
"{'Value':{'Path':'TheText','Converter':'StringReverse'}}"),
                                  },
                              new Section("Editing")
                                  {
                                      new
EntryElement("Edit").Bind(this, "{'Value':{'Path':'TheText'}}"),
                                  },
                          };


As I say... The full story is quite long, its related to some of the
MonoCross MVC work, and it's tied to a project I've been on for the last 3
months. This open source part I'm writing it up as I get bits of spare
time.... which isn't very often!

Stuart
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