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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_5

5. User Interaction Using Controls

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

Users choose dates, times, text, integers, doubles, and other values on mobile devices by using tactile controls. Touch-sensitive screens have user interaction that differs slightly from mouse-driven UIs: most is done with the thumbs and forefingers on the touchscreen. From the user’s standpoint, this results in a hands-on control-panel interface with switches, icons, sliders, keyboards, and pickers that sometimes look—but, more important, feel—like physical mechanisms.

Chapter 1 covered some of the basic ...

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