Add a Control to Your Project
Show the Telerik Toolbox.
In order to show the Toolbox and start using the controls, you should navigate to the StartPage.xaml file in your project and click on it. If the ProjectTemplate.mpack file is installed successfully, Toolbox window is visible in the project when you click on the StartPage.xaml file.
For more information about Toolbox for Mac check the TelerikXamarinForms Toolbox article.
Add a Control to Your Project.
Embedding the controls from the suite is made as easy as possible and all you need to do is simply drag one of the controls within your XAML file. This will add the control definition and will also map the needed namespace declarations. For the purpose of this example we will add RadListView Control.
Figure 1: Adding Telerik controls to your application
Populating RadListView with data
First thing you need to do is to create a data and view model classes:
Example 1: Populating RadListView with data in C#.
public class SourceItem
{
public SourceItem(string name)
{
this.Name = name;
}
public string Name { get; set; }
}
public class ViewModel
{
public ViewModel()
{
this.Source = new List<SourceItem> { new SourceItem("Tom"), new SourceItem("Anna"), new SourceItem("Peter"), new SourceItem("Teodor"), new SourceItem("Lorenzo"), new SourceItem("Andrea"), new SourceItem("Martin") };
}
public List<SourceItem> Source { get; set; }
}
Update the setup of the ListView you created in Figure 6 to be like:
Example 2: Update the setup of the ListView in XAML.
<telerikDataControls:RadListView x:Name="listView" ItemsSource="{Binding Source}">
<telerikDataControls:RadListView.BindingContext>
<local:ViewModel />
</telerikDataControls:RadListView.BindingContext>
<telerikDataControls:RadListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<telerikListView:ListViewTemplateCell>
<telerikListView:ListViewTemplateCell.View>
<Grid>
<Label Margin="10" Text="{Binding Name}" />
</Grid>
</telerikListView:ListViewTemplateCell.View>
</telerikListView:ListViewTemplateCell>
</DataTemplate>
</telerikDataControls:RadListView.ItemTemplate>
</telerikDataControls:RadListView>
The results should be:
Figure 2: Result in Android, iOS and Windows
Next Steps
Now that you have your first Telerik UI for Xamarin control running, you may want to explore the different features, behavior and appearances. Below you can find guidance on getting started with such tasks: