May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
11h 50m
English
In some cases, developers need to resort to using native user controls; especially when a certain control only exists for a certain platform (that is, no Xamarin.Forms abstraction exists for that specific UI element). In these types of situations, Xamarin enables users to declare native views within Xamarin.Forms XAML and set/bind the properties of these controls.
In order to include native views, first the namespaces for the native views should be declared:
xmlns:ios="clr-namespace:UIKit;assembly=Xamarin.iOS;targetPlatform=iOS"xmlns:androidWidget="clr-namespace:Android.Widget;assembly=Mono.Android;targetPlatform=Android"xmlns:formsandroid="clr-namespace:Xamarin.Forms;assembly=Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android;targetPlatform=Android ...Read now
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