Mastering Xamarin UI Development - Second Edition

Updating the WalkTrailInfoPage to use Simple Animations

In this section, we will take a look at how to update the user interface for our WalkTrailInfoPage to include naming to our control elements in our XAML, so that we can access these controls in our code-behind and apply Simple Animations and other animations using C# code.

Let's start updating the user interface for our WalkTrailInfoPage by performing the following steps:

1. Locate and open the WalkTrailInfoPage.xaml file, which is located in the Views folder, ensure that it is displayed in the code editor, and enter the following highlighted code sections:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>    <ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"   xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml" ...