Xamarin can be difficult to manage for an IT staff because it requires behavioral thinking vs. web-like scripting. This library provides tons of helpful Forms components and logic to make your life easier:
- Validations, including behaviors
- Custom input controls such as check boxes, editable entries, etc. -- all validation-ready
- An image label button that replaces all existing buttons with a much more powerful, stylable paradigm
- "State machine" style navigation that replaces tired, old menu bars and back stacks.
- Binding utilities
- Many methods to allow quick creation of UI elements such as grids
- Dozens of utilities to handle the Xamarin.Forms side of things (similar to what Shared Utils does for C#)
- A scalable UI that auto-adjusts for any device on-the-fly
- View mode bases and examples to make these a snap
Shared Forms is a sub-set of a comprehensive Xamarin.Forms code base. See the new Xamarin Forms Support library for more details. That project references this one.
Don't worry about the vast number of offerings. The Visual Studio Linker only includes what you actually use!
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