If you have experience creating applications in WPF, Silverlight, or Windows Store apps, then you may be more comfortable building your applications using the Xamarin.Forms XAML. Unfortunately, there currently isn't a visual XAML designer. So, for the time being we have to create our XAML markups by hand, but that could change in time.
Note
Note that the Xamarin.Forms XAML is somewhat of a subset to the XAML you may be familiar with, and it also includes new markup tags and attributes created specifically for the Xamarin.Forms framework. I mentioned this to point out that you won't be able to simply import your XAML code files from other solutions and compile them in Xamarin.Forms without significant refactoring.
Let's create the same fishing hooks application as before, but this time create the Pages using XAML. Since the namespaces will change for this project, I will take the time to detail each step again:
In Xamarin Studio, create a new solution. Choose the Blank App (Xamarin...