So folks. Looks like making good code still has some worth. Ipad / Iphone app, with Login functionality now. This code is placed in the AppDelegate.cs in Mono Touch for the interface on app start.
RootElement re = new RootElement("Login");
Section creds = new Section("Credentials");
Section welcome = new Section("Welcome to Youth Impact!");
UIImageView ie;
if(UIDevice.CurrentDevice.UserInterfaceIdiom == UIUserInterfaceIdiom.Phone) ie = new UIImageView(UIImage.FromBundle("resized.png"));
else ie = new UIImageView(UIImage.FromBundle("small2.png"));
welcome.Add(ie);
login = new EntryElement("Login","Enter your Email", "");
password = new EntryElement("Password","","",true);
creds.Add(login);
creds.Add(password);
Section button = new Section();
button.Add(new StringElement("Sign In",delegate { Validate();}));
re.Add(welcome);
re.Add(creds);
re.Add(button);
window = new UIWindow (UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds);
DialogViewController dialog = new DialogViewController(re);
window.RootViewController = new DialogViewController(re);
I only put in a bit of logic for swapping the image out for IPhone / Ipad. There is some code to do for when the app shifts Orientation. As your properly sized image needs to be replaced with an image with the proper width / height due to the orientation change.
Using that if(UIDevice.CurrentDevice.UserInterfaceIdiom == UIUserInterfaceIdiom.Phone), should provide you the ability to handle that.. and maybe I'll just update this post later.
In the Validate method, I check the two Entries, one for password, and one for Login.. and use my web service call to validate the user.. if the response comes back as valid credentials, then I load the default ViewController that was generated when you create a "Universal" iphone / ipad app in Mono Touch.
Most of this code was taken as ill-gotten gains from this great recipe on Xamarin:
Xamarin Login Window Recipe.
