Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms

flag is similar, but it takes the size of the child into account: a position of (0, 0) puts the child in the upper-left corner, a position of (1, 1) puts the child in the lower-right corner, and a position of (0.5, 0.5) centers the child within the AbsoluteLayout. Taking the size of the child into account is great for some tasks—​​​​​​such as centering a child in an AbsoluteLayout or displaying

Xamarin.Forms also supports XAML (pronounced “zammel” to rhyme with “camel”), the XML-based Extensible Application Markup Language developed at Microsoft as a general-purpose markup language for instantiating and initializing objects. XAML isn’t limited to defining initial layouts of user interfaces, but historically that’s how it’s been used the most, and that’s what it’s used for in Xamarin.Forms.

This is important: if you’re experiencing a problem using Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, or Windows, that’s not a problem with Xamarin.Forms, and you’ll need to solve that problem before using Xamarin.Forms.