Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development

Using XAML in Xamarin.Forms

In addition to defining Xamarin.Forms controls from C# code, Xamarin has provided the tool to develop your UI in Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML). XAML is a declarative language that is basically a set of XML elements that map to a certain control in the Xamarin.Forms framework. Using XAML is comparable to what you would think of using HTML to define the UI on a web page, with the exception that XAML in Xamarin.Forms creates C# objects that represent a native UI.

To understand how XAML works in Xamarin.Forms, let's create a new page with lots of UI on it:

1. Create a new Xamarin.Forms Portable solution by navigating to C# | Mobile Apps | Blank App (Xamarin.Forms Portable).
2. Name the project something appropriate ...