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Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development

You're reading from   Xamarin: Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development Master the skills required to develop cross-platform applications from drawing board to app store(s) using Xamarin

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Product type Course
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120129
Length 1049 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chapter 3. Native Platform-Specific Views and Behavior

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Showing native pages with renderers
  • Attaching platform-specific gestures
  • Taking an in-app photo with the native camera page

Introduction

Xamarin.Forms cross-platform UI framework will provide you with all the mechanisms to write your code once and deliver to all three major mobile platforms on the market. You can write your cross-platform pages in the PCL shared project and everything will work.

If you started this module from the beginning recipe by recipe, then you already encountered the usage of PageRenderers for platform-specific functionality and look-and-feel views customization.

In this chapter, we will take the customization of Xamarin.Forms platform-specific pages, views, and behavior to its maximum usage. We start with adding native views for each platform, adding native behavior in views with a delay tap functionality in a view, adding additional views per platform...

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