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_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 ...