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Jonathan Peppers
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Jonathan Peppers is a Xamarin MVP and lead developer on popular apps and games at Hitcents such as the Hanx Writer (for Tom Hanks) and the Draw a Stickman franchise. Jon has been working with C# for over 10 years working on a wide range of projects at Hitcents. Jon began his career working Self-Checkout software written in WinForms and later migrated to WPF. Over his career, he has worked with many .NET-centric technologies such as ASP.Net WebForms, MVC, Windows Azure, WinRT/UWP, F#, and Unity3D. In recent years, Hitcents has been heavily investing in mobile development with Xamarin, and has development over 50 mobile applications across multiple platforms.
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Adding a friends list screen


The next screen we need for our XamSnap app is our friends list. When creating a new conversation, the app will load a list of friends to start a conversation with. We'll follow a very similar pattern to load our list of conversations.

To begin, we'll create UIBarButtonItem, which navigates to a new controller named FriendsController, by performing the following steps:

  1. Double-click on the Main.storyboard file to open it in the iOS designer.

  2. Add a new Table View Controller to the storyboard.

  3. Select your view controller, click on the Properties pane and make sure you have selected the Widget tab.

  4. Enter FriendsController into the Class field.

  5. Scroll down to the View Controller section and enter Friends in the Title field.

  6. Drag a Navigation Item from the Toolbox onto the ConversationsController.

  7. Create a new Bar Button Item element and place it on the top-right of the new navigation bar.

  8. In the Properties pane of the bar button, set its Identifier to Add. This will use the...

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Jonathan Peppers is a Xamarin MVP and lead developer on popular apps and games at Hitcents such as the Hanx Writer (for Tom Hanks) and the Draw a Stickman franchise. Jon has been working with C# for over 10 years working on a wide range of projects at Hitcents. Jon began his career working Self-Checkout software written in WinForms and later migrated to WPF. Over his career, he has worked with many .NET-centric technologies such as ASP.Net WebForms, MVC, Windows Azure, WinRT/UWP, F#, and Unity3D. In recent years, Hitcents has been heavily investing in mobile development with Xamarin, and has development over 50 mobile applications across multiple platforms.
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