xamarin_forms

Bottom Bar Tabs for your Xamarin Forms app

May 15, 2021 3 minute read

Following on from last weeks article, I am continuing on my UI journey for my contacts app. My app design calls for a bottom app bar, with three sections - contacts, groups, and profile. The contacts and groups will be lists, and the profile will be a detail page for your own details with an editor. To start, I created the three pages as ContentPage views, complete with XAML layout. For example, here is my ListContactsPage XAML file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <Cont...

Adding an icon font to your Xamarin Forms apps

May 09, 2021 5 minute read

I’ve started building a new app using Xamarin Forms from scratch. The idea is that I have a list of contacts stored in the cloud. There isn’t anything revolutionary about that, but I’m going to allow sharing of specific lists with others. You could, for example, create a tag called “Cycling Buddies”, and then tag your friends with that. Everyone who subscribes to the same list gets the same information. Even better, you can “broadcast” your information to certain groups, allowing other p...