Adding gesture recognizers in XAML
The most common gestures in every mobile platform are tap, pinch, swipe, and long tap. All these can be combined. Maybe you have also encountered applications that use more than one finger; for example, the two-finger swipe.
Every platform has a completely different system to handle touches and gestures. I find Apple's philosophy the best architected, and it seems Xamarin.Forms does too. If you are coming from iOS, you will find the same naming of the gesture recognizers.
You are able to add multiple gesture recognizers to a UI element. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing there is support for the tap and pinch gestures only, but the Xamarin.Forms team is adding gesture recognizers, as they proved in the ...
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