Suppose you have a collection of items and you want to display them in a ListView (Xamarin.Forms). The catch is that you want to change the display of each item depending on its state or some other code-based attributes.
At first glance this would seem very difficult, and you’d have to modify the instances in the collection to do so. This is where the DataTemplateSelector comes in.
In short, you create two or more data templates — one for each way you might want to display one of the items in your collection — and then you tell Xamarin.Forms, by way of the DataTemplateSelector, which data template to use.
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