{"id":45593,"date":"2020-10-09T08:55:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T08:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/?p=45593"},"modified":"2020-10-12T03:58:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T03:58:19","slug":"xamarin-forms-styling-using-material-visual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridge-global.com\/blog\/xamarin-forms-styling-using-material-visual\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Style Xamarin.Forms Using Material Visual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the most comprehensive guide to Xamarin.Forms style using material visual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this new guide, you\u2019ll learn how to apply Material Design rules to Xamarin applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s dive right in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting mobile apps into the hands of target users is a never-ending dream of businesses worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But creating apps that span all mobile platforms.is a challenge for developers especially when it comes to creating apps using Xamarin – the renowned open-source mobile app platform for NET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shattered landscape of mobile platforms poses a real challenge when it comes to rendering an apt look and feel (style) to Xamarin apps across diverse platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, you can get some useful tips to build amazing cross-platform iOS, Android, and Windows applications in .NET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s discover how to make your app look more similar across-platform using the Xamarin Visual Rendering System. Xamarin.Forms just uses the native controls undercover, which is indeed an adorable thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you build a settings page on Android<\/a> and a settings page on iOS<\/a>,as the operating systems update, your controls are going to get updated and they are going to look like how the operating system thinks modern controls should look.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Styles are great. You just customize the control as heavily as you need to. You can change any property and apply it through your app. For more information refer Styles<\/a>.
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But there’s another way that you can do it where you hook into an existing design system: by using the Xamarin Visual Rendering System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can actually create your own design system with the Visual Rendering System. It’s shareable with different apps as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the really cool thing about the visual system is that you can pull in existing design systems from open source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those is Material Design<\/a> – Google’s design system. It is very popular and this is what they use for all their apps right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you open Google Maps on Android and iOS, they look pretty similar and that’s because they are using Material Design renders on those platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xamarin has introduced Xamarin.Forms Material Visual<\/a>, which can be used to apply Material Design rules to Xamarin applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we enable Material Visual , the supported views will adopt the same designs cross-platform, resulting in a unified look and feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 Simple steps to add Xamarin.Forms Material Visual in your application.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n