UI, Xamarin

Replicating Food UI Sample

Well, I tell you that I really LOVE this!?I’m always searching different screen designs for mobile applications and I saw this one for a food application that I liked and when I saw it I definitely wanted to replicate it! The design was obtained from the Dribble following link. We will be building the first screen! Tools that I used…

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Images, UI

Learning about Embedded Images in Xamarin Forms

Hello everybody! I hope that you all had excellent Christmas & New Year parties and had a great time with your loved ones! ??Now is the time to continue learning!  (Voice saying yes ?) In this article will be learning about Embedded Images. So… ? I imagine that at some point in your developer life when you are adding images to…

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UI, Xamarin

Understanding the differences between Margin & Padding and Translation properties

Hi!! And merry Christmas to all! This time we will be learning about two things I have received questions about, they may be easy to confuse because both properties handle the same values and behaves similarly, I’m talking about the Padding and Margin properties, on many occasions we tend to use them as “equivalent” properties, but it is important to understand what the difference…

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UI

Replicating great UI in Xamarin Forms

Hello, for this post I reproduced a super nice UI that was inspired by Mountain Trip Design  and I listed the themes I used to build it! Tools that I used To replicate the Mountain Trip UI, I used the following tools: ?Visual State Manager – It allow us the make visual changes to our controls depending on the state.…

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UI

Getting started with Visual State Manager (VSM) in Xamarin Forms

When we are developing an application we usually face requirements that needs some visual changes depending of a specific control’s state. For example, we may need to increase the height of an Entry while the user is writing, but we may also need to modify the text color, the most important is that all of this must happen when the…

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UI, Xamarin

Adding custom fonts in Xamarin Forms

Often, when we need to apply a design we find different Fonts to which we think fits best with the design, for that reason use a custom Font. That’s what we’re going to be learning in this post!! Let’s start! For the example I will use the Cute Jelyfish font, you can find it here. The first that we have to learn is…

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UI

Replicating Facebook Profile UI in Xamarin Forms

Hello guys!! This time, I created a post that’s a little different than my usual posts, I built a Facebook Profile UI! So you’ll be able to the whole code, I will list the elements I used and leave some explanatory posts so you can understand them better in case you have not used them yet. Let me tell you…

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UI, Xamarin

Showing Design Time Data with XAML Previewer

From developer to developer, I would like to start this article by asking some questions: 1⃣  Have you ever experienced that you want to show the progress of the design of a screen and for this you need to add test data to the XAML so that the user can see the results, right? 2⃣  So after you convinced the…

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Xamarin

Make your life simpler with the CollectionView’s Layouts 😎

CollectionView allows us display a list of data. It’s very similar to the ListView but this control enhances the performance and memory management of the list and covers different layout presentations such as: Vertical, horizontal and grid, making it a lot better and saving us our precious development time. This control is available from the version of Xamarin Forms 4.0.…

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