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Building Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAML: Mobile Cross-Platform XAML and Xamarin.Forms Fundamentals
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Building Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAML: Mobile Cross-Platform XAML and Xamarin.Forms Fundamentals

by Dan Hermes, Nima Mazloumi
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
445 pages
9h 21m
English
Apress
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© Dan Hermes 2019
Dan Hermes and Nima MazloumiBuilding Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAMLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4030-4_3

3. UI Design Using Layouts

Dan Hermes1  and Nima Mazloumi2
(1)
Boston, MA, USA
(2)
San Francisco, CA, USA
 

A layout is a container for controls, images, text, and other layouts. Central to the creation of mobile UIs, layouts help us to design our pages by facilitating the placement of views and nested layouts (for more views). If you’ve worked with HTML <div>, <table>, or <form> elements, then layouts should feel familiar to you. The purpose of a layout is to indicate the location and size of each of its child elements. This is typically done in three ways: relative to the individual controls in the layout, relative to ...

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