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Dynamically Changing Xamarin.Forms Tab Icons When Selected

Spicing up your Xamarin.Forms tab can easily be done in a few ways. You can add tint color in Android when the user deselects a tab [https://montemagno.com/xamarin-forms-android-selected-and-unselected-tab-colors], which can also be done in iOS in addition to a full swap of a selected image [https://montemagno.com/tintcolor-selectedimage-xamarin-forms-ios]. It was recently pointed out to me that these blogs highlighted a way of adding back a bit of nativeness, but didn't answer a different ques…

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Xamarin.Forms Android Selected & Unselected Tab Colors

I get a lot of questions about Xamarin.Forms. One of my most popular blogs was about spicing upiOS tabs with selected and unselected tab colors [http://motzcod.es/post/138225183932/tintcolor-selectedimage-xamarin-forms-ios], and since that day developers have been asking about Android. Well, to be honest I was always against adding icons to material tabs in Android, but developers want to do it, so here is how you can, with a Custom Renderer for a Tabbed Page. Here is what it will look like at t…

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Adding a Disclosure Indicator Accessory to Xamarin.Forms ViewCells

Xamarin.Forms has a super powerful ListView. You can easily add custom cells, pull to refresh, headers, footers, and even sections with just a few lines of code. A while ago I talked about how to easily group items [http://motzcod.es/post/94643411707/enhancing-xamarinforms-listview-with-grouping] to display section headers in the ListView. You get a great native styling of section headers with just a few simple lines of code. One thing I have noticed and has bothered me specifically with iOS is…

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Dynamically Changing Xamarin.Forms Tab Icons When Selected

Xamarin.Forms Android Selected & Unselected Tab Colors

Adding a Disclosure Indicator Accessory to Xamarin.Forms ViewCells

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