Introduction
In the previous chapter, you learned how to start your adventure of developing applications for smartphones, tablets, and desktops running on the Windows 10 operating system. In the next step, it is crucial to get to know how to design particular pages within the application to provide the user with a convenient user interface that works smoothly on screens with various resolutions.
Fortunately, designing the user interface is really simple using the XAML language and Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015. You can use a set of predefined controls, such as textboxes, checkboxes, images, or buttons. What is more, you can easily arrange controls in various variants, either vertically, horizontally, or in a grid. This is not all, because you can prepare your own controls that could be placed on many pages within the application. It is also possible to prepare dedicated versions of particular pages for various device families, such as mobile or desktop.
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