Laying out the contents

This last section is about making the app look a bit nicer. We will just scratch the surface of the possibilities here, but this should give you some ideas about how styling works.

Setting an application-wide background color

Styles are a great way of applying styling to elements. They can be applied either to all elements of a type or the elements referenced by a key if you add an x:Key attribute:

1. Open App.xaml.
2. Add the following XAML, which is in bold, to the file:

   <ResourceDictionary>
     <Style TargetType="NavigationPage">
       <Setter Property="BarBackgroundColor" Value="#A25EBB" />
       <Setter Property="BarTextColor" Value="#FFFFFF" />
     </Style>
     <Style x:Key="FilterButton" TargetType="Button">
       <Setter Property="Margin" Value=...