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

© Dan Hermes 2019

Dan Hermes and Nima MazloumiBuilding Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAMLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4030-4_2

2. Building Xamarin.Forms Apps Using XAML

Dan Hermes¹  and Nima Mazloumi²

(1)

Boston, MA, USA

(2)

San Francisco, CA, USA

 

The eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML, pronounced “zammel”) is used to define user interfaces (UI) for frameworks such as the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), and Xamarin.Forms. These XAML dialects share the same syntax based on the 2009 XAML specification but differ in their vocabularies, which may eventually be aligned under one XAML Standard.

Every XAML document is an XML document with one root element and nested child elements. In XAML, an element ...