Hands-On Mobile Development with .NET Core

Creating a custom renderer

At times, a target platform can offer out-of-the-box functionality that exceeds the expected requirements via the use of customized controls from Xamarin.Forms. In these types of situations, it could be a good idea to replace the Xamarin.Forms implementation on a specific platform.

For instance, the form entry fields that we were trying to achieve with our custom implementation in the previous section would look much more platform appropriate if they were implemented with a TextInputLayout that followed material design guidelines:

In this layout, we can bind the label to the floating label and the error text to ...