Trigger PropertyChanged of indexed property in Xamarin Forms

Xamarin Forms supports binding to indexed properties. But do you know how to trigger a PropertyChanged event on such a property so that the binding engine gets the updated value? Binding to indexed properties Binding to an indexed property in Xamarin Forms is simple. Imagine my ViewModel has an indexed property:

Dictionary<string, string> Data { get; } = new Dictionary<string, string>()
{
    { "123", "Pie" },
    { "456", "Eating" },
    { "789", "Ninjas" }
};
public string this[string id]
{
    get
    {
        return Data[id];
    }
}

Dictionary<string, string> Data { get; } = new Dictionary<string, string>()

{

{ "123", "Pie" },

{ "456", "Eating" },

{ "789", "Ninjas" }

};

public string this[string id]

{

get

{

return Data[id];

}

I can simply bind… Read More »

Setting up a Realm Object Server in Azure and connect to it with Xamarin Forms

Lately I’ve been playing around with Realm. Realm is a very cool platform that allows us to easily build mobile apps that use things like local data storage, two-way data synchronisation, real time collaboration, … Things that typically require some coding if you want to do it yourself! After doing some test with local data storage… Read More »