In the previous chapters, we used intrinsic Xamarin.Forms controls and their styling attributes to create our user interface. By using data binding and data triggers, we created data-driven views. The extensibility options are of course not limited to the control attributes that are available on this layer. Both the behavior and the look and feel of rendered controls can be modified using standard customization and extensibility options. Let's take a look at the different customization options in the shared Xamarin.Forms domain.
Previously, we created a simple chips container to display the various features of an item that is currently being offered through our application.
In the previous setup, we were only utilizing the Margin
property and VerticalTextAlignment
for the labels:
<FlexLayout Direction="Row" Wrap="Wrap">
<Label Text="Feature 1" Margin="4" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" BackgroundColor="Gray" />
<Label Text="Feat...