Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, get some hands-on practice, and explore this chapter's topics with more in-depth research.

Exercise 21.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the difference between Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms?
2. What are the four categories of Xamarin.Forms user interface components, and what do they represent?
3. List four types of cell.
4. How can you enable a user to perform an action on a cell in a list view?
5. How do you define a dependency service to implement platform-specific functionality?
6. When would you use an Entry instead of an Editor?
7. What is the effect of setting IsDestructive to true for a menu item in a cell's context actions?
8. When would you call the methods PushAsync and PopAsync in a Xamarin.Forms mobile app?
9. How do you show a pop-up modal message with simple button choices like Yes or No?
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