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6. Building Screens

Gerald Versluis

(1)Sittard, The Netherlands

This chapter goes in-depth into the key aspects of the “been pwned” app. By looking at the screens and how they are built, you will see how Xamarin.Forms features and concepts are implemented.

Because describing every line of every page in detail might be a bit much, I selected the ones that have the most interesting elements. The remainder of the pages have variations of those same elements.

The Main Entry Point

To start the app, we have the App.xaml and App.xaml.cs files . The latter is actually most important. In fact, the App.xaml page can be removed altogether. Although ...

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