Creating and using PlatformEffects in your app

In this section, we will see how we can work with the PlatformEffects API, which will allow us to customize the appearance and styling of our Xamarin.Forms native control elements for both the iOS and Android platforms. You will notice that these implementations have the same class names, but will be implemented completely differently, as you will see once we start.

We will look at how to create two completely different platform-effects, ButtonShadowEffect and LabelShadowEffect, for both iOS and Android platforms.

Creating and Implementing the ButtonShadowEffect (iOS)

In this section, we will begin creating the ButtonShadowEffect class for the iOS section of our TrackMyWalks solution...