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Working with Styles in Xamarin.Forms 4 Applications
This course teaches you how to reuse user interface code in your Xamarin.Forms applications with XAML Styles and with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
What you'll learn
To avoid UI code duplication in your Xamarin.Forms apps is a thorough knowledge of reusing UI code with styles. In this course, Working with Styles in Xamarin.Forms 4 Applications, you’ll learn how to use styles in your Xamarin.Forms apps to reuse UI code. First, you’ll explore what a style is and you will create your first implict, explicit, and global styles in XAML. Next, you’ll discover how to reuse UI code with advanced style features, like style inheritance, style classes and dynamic styles. Finally, you’ll learn how to style your Xamarin.Forms apps with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of XAML Styles and CSS in Xamarin.Forms that is needed to create reusable and maintainable UI code in your applications.
Table of contents
- Version Check | 15s
- Introduction | 1m 6s
- What Are Styles and Why Use Them? | 2m 39s
- How This Course Is Structured | 1m 44s
- The Wired Brain Coffee Scenario | 57s
- Look at the Coffee Expert App | 4m 8s
- Create Your First Style | 5m 23s
- Use an Explicit ResourceDictionary | 3m 6s
- Understand How Styles Are Searched | 3m 4s
- Define a Global Style | 3m 8s
- Create an Implicit Style | 4m 10s
- Use an Implicit Style at the Control Level | 3m 10s
- Create Multiple Explicit Styles for the Same Type | 3m 59s
- Summary | 33s
About the author
Thomas is a well-known author, software developer, and speaker from Germany. He specializes in .NET, C#, TypeScript, XAML, and Azure.