Chapter 8. Xamarin.Forms
Xamarin.Forms is an extension module to Xamarin compiler technologies; an abstraction layer on top of the native UI components on target platforms. This chapter will focus on the various features and extensibility options of Xamarin.Forms that help developers create cross-platform application user interfaces that can then be compiled into Xamarin projects, increasing the code-sharing quality markers, and making cross-platform application development projects more manageable and unified. This chapter is divided into the following sections:
- Under the hood
- Components
- Extending forms
- Patterns and best practices
Under the hood
As previously mentioned, Xamarin, being a cross-platform development framework, provides developers the ...
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