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When to use xf.forms vs xamarin.forms?


Asked by Talia Barker on Dec 15, 2021 FAQ



If you need a mobile app for minimum cost, then Xamarin.Forms is probably the way to go. For an MVP or an app that uses lists and clean, consistent layouts extensively, then XF is hard to beat. Two or more platforms from one code base, including the UI, is a proposition that many businesses wouldn’t ignore.
Similarly,
Xamarin Forms & WPF Comparison. Xamarin Forms borrows much of it’s technologies from WPF and Silverlight. The UI can be described using XAML in much the same way that we do in WPF. This provides all the binding support that enables us to use MVVM to separate the application logic from the UI. As a WPF developer this is great news.
Consequently, January 7th, 2021 Today we are publishing the latest stable release of Xamarin.Forms, version 5.0. This major release delivers hundreds of quality improvements and brings to stable release new features including App Themes, Brushes, CarouselView, RadioButton, Shapes and Paths, and SwipeView.
In this manner,
The process for creating a Xamarin.Forms Shell application is to create a XAML file that subclasses the Shell class, set the MainPage property of the application's App class to the subclassed Shell object, and then describe the visual hierarchy of the application in the subclassed Shell class.
Likewise,
When writing C# Markup pages for Xamarin.Forms, some code patterns are often repeated with minor variations. These C# Markup snippets create some of these patterns for you, and let you specify variations with optional parameters. These snippets can save you a lot of typing.