All tagged Xamarin

How to Build a Freaking Xamarin Forms App

Take this complete guide to Xamarin.Forms and learn to create a full Xamarin.Forms app that uses XAML to define the interface, that uses the NavigationPage to navigate between pages, that implements local databases with SQLite, that uses ListView and DataBinding to list elements from the database, that creates a ToolbarItem, and that is tested directly from Visual Studio 2017 into an Android and an iOS simulator.

How to design efficiently on Xamarin Forms - Implicit Styles

Using XAML Styles is probably one of the best things you can do when developing XAML applications, especially as they grow and you have more and more pages that you need to maintain, and they need to keep the same looks. This is true of course for Xamarin Forms applications as well, even when this UIs are going to be shared across Android, iOS and sometimes even Windows.

This post is about implementing implicit styles, those that are automatically applied to the entirety of the definitions from one type.