Xamarin.Forms shared domains
In Chapter 5, UI Development with Xamarin, we used intrinsic Xamarin.Forms controls and their styling attributes to create our UI. By using data binding and data triggers, we created data-driven views. The extensibility options are, of course, not limited to the control attributes that are available on this layer. Both the behavior and the look and feel of rendered controls can be modified using standard customization and extensibility options. Let's take a look at the different customization options in the shared Xamarin.Forms domain.
Using styles
In the previous chapter, in our ShopAcross application, when working on the product details view, we created a simple chips container to display the various features of an item that was currently being offered through the application.
In the previous setup, we were only utilizing the Margin property and VerticalTextAlignment for the labels:
<FlexLayout Direction="Row" Wrap="...
