Chapter 6 Creating Our Own Layout

Now you can start building the layout that will display the placeholders and ultimately your widgets.

ILayoutManager

You have a slight chicken-and-egg scenario here. You need to create a board and a layout manager, both of which need to know about the other; therefore, let’s add in the LayoutManager parts first.

The purpose of the ILayoutManager interface is to define how the BoardLayout will interact with a layout manager implementation.

Create a folder called Layouts in your main project. It will house the ILayoutManager interface and more as you build your application.

Next, add a new class to the folder and call it ILayoutManager.

namespace WidgetBoard.Layouts;

public interface ILayoutManager

{

object BindingContext { get; set; }

BoardLayout Board { get; set; }

void SetPosition(BindableObject bindableObject, int position);

}

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