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Mastering Xamarin.Forms

You're reading from   Mastering Xamarin.Forms App architecture techniques for building multi-platform, native mobile apps with Xamarin.Forms 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
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ISBN-13 9781839213380
Length 200 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Custom renderers

One of the paramount features of the Xamarin.Forms toolkit is the layer of abstraction it provides over UI implementation. With a single API, Xamarin.Forms allows you to use native UI controls and functionality.

For example, the Entry class at runtime will display a UITextField view on iOS, an EditText widget on Android, and a TextBox control on Windows. The toolkit does this using a concept called renderers. The renderers correspond with the visual elements—controls, pages, and layouts—within the API. So, for example, there is an EntryRenderer that is responsible for rendering instances of the Entry class down to the platform-specific versions of that control.

The beauty of this renderer concept is that you can subclass the various renderer classes to override how a specific element is translated at runtime. So, for example, if you want all text boxes in your app (that is, every time you display an Entry element) to be completely borderless, you...

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