CHAPTER 8

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Custom Renderers

When you’re ready to extend the capability of Xamarin.Forms views beyond their out-of-the-box functionality, then it’s time to start customizing them using custom renderers. Platform-specific controls and layouts have scores of features unavailable using only the Xamarin.Forms abstraction. Fortunately, Xamarin.Forms exposes the mechanism whereby cross-platform views are made into platform-specific views, called renderers. By creating your own custom renderers, you get full access to platform-specific features buried deep within each view!

Custom renderers are a bridge between Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin platform-specific ...

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