XAML - Progrunning

Xamarin.Forms - Working with Visual States (Part I - Binding)

There's multiple ways of handling visual states of your app pages, views or controls. Depending on how you utilize these techniques, they all might be fine to use. Moreover, you don't need to stick with just one way of handling your states, they all have there pros and cons.

Xamarin.Forms

Creating custom Xamarin.Forms loading indicator with animations

It's inevitable that, as a mobile app developer, you will need to show a loading indicator in your app. These are mostly used to inform users that the application needs to do some "thinking" and the users are required to wait until the process is completed.

Xamarin.Forms

Reusing Xamarin.Forms StaticResources

It's important to be consistent with how you use spacing, fonts, colors and other resources across your entire app. You should aim to have exactly the same Margins or Paddings, use the same font families and the same Color palette on every page of your app.

Xamarin.Forms

Organising Xamarin.Forms StaticResources

Having just one XAML ResourceDictionary file with all of your globally available StaticResources defined in it can easily expand to enormous sizes and get very messy. This makes every developer's life unnecessarily harder.