CHAPTER 4

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User Interaction Using Controls

Users choose dates, times, text, integers, doubles, and other values on mobile devices by using tactile controls. Touch-sensitive screens have user interaction that differs slightly from mouse-driven UIs: most is done with the thumbs and forefingers on the touchscreen. From the user’s standpoint, this results in a hands-on control-panel interface with switches, icons, sliders, keyboards, and pickers that sometimes look—but more important, feel—like physical mechanisms.

Chapter 2 covered some of the basic Xamarin.Forms views such as the Label, Button, and Image. In this chapter, you’ll explore additional ...

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