Nowadays, we work with applications that handle a big data sources and that frequently needs to be displayed in a ListView. Working with this control type, it’s important to know that if we just display all the data, it can be overwhelming for our users and that’s not the idea ?. As developers, in these cases we must try to make…
Category: UI
Simple way to create a Floating Button in Xamarin Forms
When we are creating some UI, there are some parts that may seem complicated, this may be true or not, it all depends on how we do the implementation, one example of this can be adding a Floating button in our screen, that’s why in this post we will be learning how to do this in a very simple way!.…
Sharing information in Xamarin Forms
Sometimes, we need to share information from our App to other apps, such as an address, a file, an URL among others. Xamarin Essential gives us the power to do it! In this post we will be learning how to do it. This post will be divided in the following topics: ? Platform Supports ? Sharing overload methods ? Experimental…
Applying Mask in Xamarin Forms
When we develop an Application, it’s important to take into consideration every feature possible to ease the user’s experience. Our brain behaves based on patterns, therefore, has the ability to understand certain information faster according to its presentation. For example: Without having to read a lot, we can see that “(809) 222-3333” is a telephone number. That’s why, in this post,…
Quick tips to decorate texts in Xamarin Forms
It has happened to all of us that we have to develop some pages full of texts without any feature else and as we know a lot of text together can overwhelm the user. That’s why in this post we will be learning to create it as friendly as possible to make our app’s user experience better. In this time we will…
Customizing browser appearance in Xamarin Forms
It’s too friendly when we see an Application with the perfect combination regarding Look & Feel. Some of these Apps needs to access to an external page, which forces us to use browsers that do not help us keep the color scheme used in our application.☹ But…What if I tell you that now you can change the appearance of your…
Converting Colors in Xamarin Forms
This time, I want to share with you this great feature. Let me tell you something, when I saw this functionality I really LOVED IT ? !!! Because I can play with the colors! ? In this post, we will be learning about the different functionalities that Xamarin Essentials bring to in the System.Drawing.Color library. This explanation will be divided in the following…
Let’s use the SearchBar control in Xamarin Forms
This time I will tell you about the SearchBar, which is a control that allows us make a search of a specific information between a set of these. To understand better, I will be display these topics in the following sets: ? SearchBar basic structure ? Implementing SearchBar Page Let’s start!!! SearchBar basic structure To understand better, is important to know…
Working with AbsoluteLayout in Xamarin Forms
Often, while developing an application we face situations where we have a design that needs to implement different layouts that are not the ones we normally use (For example: StackLayout, GridLayout). Some mockups have a more complex design in which we need to organize some graphic controls overlapping others. That’s why, now Im going to explain you an easy way to learn…
Tips to practice UI development in Xamarin Forms and not die trying
When we are starting to learn some tool, programming language, process or whatever new thing that we want, normally we focus on reading and practicing specifically about this topic we want to learn, we read about new features, functionalities among others by itself to improve our knowledge. But in order to have a more efficient way to learn, we are now…
Simple way to add a Tabbed Page in our screens in Xamarin Forms
In some App’s is required to navigate within the same screen throughout different sections with their own design and information, each one independent of the other. To do it, we have a page type named: TabbedPage. Let’s learn how to implement it. What is a tabbed page? It’s a page that contains different tabs or sections that make possible the navigation between…
Handling strings in our XAML’s
In this article, I just covered a few recollections of some simple but important topics to improve our Xaml’s and that are too needed and to useful in everyday life to develop an application. I hope these topics are useful for you. Let’s start! ? We will be learning the following topics: ✔ Concatenating strings ✔ Adding special characters to the texts ✔ Making multiple…
Working with GridLayout in Xamarin Forms
When we are developing an application, is very important to know what Layout is better for our needs. For example, imagine we are writing a calculator app, we can use a StackLayout or a GridLayout. But… Really, what would happen if we create a calculator based on a set of StackLayouts? Because of the amount of nested views we need for our…
Creating Accordions in Xamarin Forms
Sometimes, we need to include in our ListViews, some additional options to make better the user experience and the usability on the screen. That’s why now I’m going to explain to you how to do an Expandable ListView (Accordion) in Xamarin Forms. Let’s see! Which steps do I have to do? 1⃣ Step one: Let’s create the Model In this example, we…
Easy way to create circle buttons in Xamarin Forms
I have seen a lot of people asking about how to create circle buttons in Xamarin Forms. I read about a quick and easy way to create that circle button effect so I have decided to make this post to share it as a reference. Let’s Start! Let’s see the properties There are two properties you can set to get…