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.NET MAUI for C# Developers

You're reading from   .NET MAUI for C# Developers Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631698
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rodrigo Juarez Rodrigo Juarez
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: Assembling Your Tools and Creating Your First App FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: What We Will Build: Forget Me Not 4. Chapter 3: XAML and Fluent C# 5. Chapter 4: MVVM and Controls 6. Chapter 5: Advanced Controls 7. Chapter 6: Layout 8. Part 2 – Intermediate Topics
9. Chapter 7: Understanding Navigation 10. Chapter 8: Storing and Retrieving Data 11. Chapter 9: Unit Testing 12. Part 3 – Advanced Topics
13. Chapter 10: Consuming REST Services 14. Chapter 11: Exploring Advanced Topics 15. Assessments 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

FlexLayout

FlexLayout is similar to VerticalStackLayout and HorizontalStackLayout with one crucial distinction: if you are using one of the stack layouts and the items extend past the end of the page (and you don’t use ScrollView), anything that doesn’t fit won’t be rendered.

FlexLayout – seem familiar?

FlexLayout might be familiar if you’ve worked with CSS. FlexLayout is very similar to the Flexible Box Layout and, in fact, was based on the CSS module.

You can see the effect of FlexLayout by removing ScrollView from PreferencesPage. All of the remaining preferences are inaccessible.

With FlexLayout, the items are wrapped to the next row or column. You define which by setting the direction in FlexLayout. The possible directions are as follows:

  • Row: Stacks children horizontally
  • Row-reverse: Stacks horizontally in reverse order
  • Column: Stacks children vertically
  • Column-reverse: Stacks vertically in reverse order
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