Blog page

[krdmllr]

Hi David,

this adds the blog page to Xappy.

I keep this open so you can track the progress and can see what is currently missing.

• [ ] Staggered collection on iOS
• [x] Staggered collection on Android
• [ ] Horizontal filling elements with special content on iOS
• [ ] Horizontal filling elements with special content on Android
• [x] Add a data source -> xamarin blog rss feed https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/feed/
• [ ] Data source error handling and loading animation
• [ ] Lazy loading for the data source
• [ ] Empty view content
• [x] Blog detail view with WebView to show the blog content
• Adds GlideX, Fody.PropertyChanged, Newtonsoft.Json, System.ServiceModel.Syndication

Current state:

Android	iOS
	todo

[davidortinau]

@krdmllr how's this coming along? Could we merge this and then continue with it or get some others involved as well?

[krdmllr]

Hi David,

I would like to implement the iOS part aswell and would try to finish that this week.

Implementing the horizontally filling tiles is a bit tricky to do because all classes you need to overwrite are sealed/interal on android. I raised an issue in the XF repo (https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/6090), I would suggest to wait for this feature until the android implementation gets opened up. We could just copy all the classes to the project but I think that would not be the best style, perhaps there is another solution someone from the community knows.