CHAPTER 2
Building Mobile User Interfaces
In mobile UI development using Xamarin, our screens and their controls, images, animations, and user interactions run natively on a handheld device. Various synonyms for mobile UI screens exist, such as views and pages, and these are used interchangeably here. A view can mean a screen but can also refer to a control in certain contexts.
Two standard approaches apply to building mobile UIs with Xamarin:
- Xamarin.Forms is a cross-platform UI library for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.
- A platform-specific (or native) UI approach uses Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, and the Windows Phone SDK.
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