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Jon
Jon

Reputation: 1727

Xamarin Forms - How to visually create a form

How in Xamarin Forms, can I visually layout and create a form. Like you do in WPF , WinForms etc.. etc... in VS and everyother IDE. Do I alway have to hand-jam the XAML? Seems so absurd.

thanks in advance and have a great coding day

Upvotes: 1

Views: 659

Answers (1)

Adam
Adam

Reputation: 16199

There is no Visual Designer, that has drag and drop functionality. You must code all views in either XAML or C#. (Preferably XAML).

The options you do have, is to view the XAML you are creating in real time, after you have typed it.

  • Xamarin Previewer (still in preview, built in to Xamarin)
  • Xamarin Inspector (if you have Visual Studio Enterprise)
  • UI Sleuth (Like Xamarin Inspector, more geared towards Xamarin Forms, and free)
  • Gorilla Player (works by actually running on a real device or simulator, but you don't have to keep compiling your app to see changes).

Give it a few weeks of writing XAML and it gets much easier.

Upvotes: 1

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