![]() Well, we went through that in this episode too! On Android it was a bit of work, so be sure to check out the video and the documentation. What's an app without a great splash screen? I think the "flatter" look that Visual provides is much better. ![]() This is how the app looked before Visual: ![]() So that's exactly what we did, applied some Visual goodness to our app so the buttons and shadows on the news list looked super duper good! That means somebody else has decided upon all the minute look and feel details, like padding and spacing and rounded corners for us.Īnd one of the cool things that comes of using Visual in Xamarin.Forms, is the resulting UI looks very similar, if not exactly the same, between iOS and Android! Visual is an opinionated design framework. And maybe the biggest little change - splash screens! Xamarin.Forms Visual We'll also see the super duper easy way to change out iOS icons. So we're going to learn how Visual makes life super easy by applying predefined styling guidelines to our apps. The whole point of this episode is to put little finishing touches on the app, to get things to look exactly right as we get ready to deploy it to the App Stores. And for good measure, we'll dig down into the platform code to tweak some UI too! What are we going to do? You'll learn all about Xamarin.Forms Visual, how to change the home screen icons, tailor the splash screens to your exact specifications, and even play around with Xamarin.Forms styles. It looked good before, but now it'll look even better! In this episode we put the finishing touches to the app's user interface. Go ahead and download all the code from GitHub - you're going to need it to follow along!Įpisode 9 Recap: Tweak It (Customizing the UI) We start from nothing and don't quit until it's ready for the App Store! Welcome back to Partly Cloudy! The show where you learn how to build a cloud-connected Xamarin mobile application.
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