UI, Xamarin

Quick tip: Handling Dark mode in our iOS App

Howdy!!!🙋‍♀️ In this case, I just want to give you a quick tip about handling the Dark mode on iOS. Appearance handling came to iOS from version 13 onwards, thanks to this update, the users who own these devices will be able to adapt the appearance of their device as they like between light and dark. Because of this, I think…

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UI, Xamarin

Replicating Burger UI App in Xamarin Forms

Howdy!!! ?‍♀In this case we are going to replicate a Burger App UI obtained from Dribble. You can check the design  here! ⚠ Before starting, to get the best out of the post, I’ll leave you some instructional notes so that you have a better experience reproducing the UI: ➖ At the beginning, you will see an image with the…

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UI, Xamarin

(Part 2) Replicating Flight UI: Working with the XAML

Howdy!!! ?‍♀ I’ll continue doing what I love ?In this case we are going to replicate a Flight UI obtained from Dribble from Gleb Kuznetsov✈. You can check it here! . To get the best out of this post, if you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend reading the first part of this article named “(Part 1) Replicating Flight UI: Preparing…

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UI, Xamarin

#SomeTips: Best practices for UI Handling!

When designing user interfaces, there are may ways to handle / create elements into it. We know that the way we do it can either save us many lines of code or not, and also can have an impact in the performance of our application. At the Microsoft 365 LIVE event I talked about this topic and now I wanted to write…

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UI, Xamarin

Replicating Exotic Fruits App in Xamarin Forms

Howdy!!! ?‍♀ I’m continue doing what I love ?In this case we are going to replicate an Exotic Fruits UI obtained from Dribble. You can check it here! ⚠ Before starting, to get the best out of the post, I’ll leave you some instructional notes so that you have a better experience reproducing the UI: ➖ At the beginning, you…

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UI, Xamarin

Inheriting styles in Xamarin Forms

When designing an application it’s common and also an excellent practice to work with styles, especially when we have controls with the same visual characteristics. But we also encounter scenarios where two or more controls which will need different styles but with most of the visual properties exactly the same, so what do we normally do in these cases? ……

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UI, Xamarin

Let’s replicate a Travel App in Xamarin Forms

Howdy!!! ?‍♀ In this #LoveMonth let’s continue with the third post of the UI series for February! In this case we are going to replicate a Travel UI obtained from Dribble. You can check it here! ⚠ Before starting, to get the best out of the post, I’ll leave you some instructional notes so that you have a better experience reproducing…

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Let’s replicate a Banking Profile UI in Xamarin Forms

Howdy!!! ?‍♀ In this  #LoveMonth, let’s continue with the second post of the UI series for February! In this case we are going to replicate a Banking Profile UI obtained from Dribble. You can check it here! ⚠ Before starting, to get the best out of the post, I’ll leave you some instructional notes so that you have a better…

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UI, Xamarin

Replicating user profile UI in Xamarin Forms

Howdy!!! ?‍♀ For February, as #LoveMonth, I decided to create a post series on a topic that I  ? !! … So weekly, I’ll be replicating some UIs starting from basic to more complex. Together we can create great things, so are you ready to start it!?  ? The first article of this series is a basic UI that we will…

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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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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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