Building Fast and Beautiful apps with Xamarin.Forms
summary
Claims that Xamarin.Forms now supports polished, performant consumer apps and shows working demos: a Facebook‑like UI built with post‑layout translations and animations, native embedding with data binding to iOS controls, and custom renderers/effects for platform fidelity. Performance tools and numbers: XAML C ~5x faster parsing, enable RecycleElement listview to avoid constant cell inflation, use FFImageLoader on Android to avoid bitmaps/OOM, prefer Grid over nested StackLayouts and avoid RelativeLayout; startup often takes ~2–3s vs <1s for native and real apps here share ~9% platform code.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:32Agenda
- 7:03FF Image Loader
- 8:07Slow Loading Pages
- 9:12UX Design
- 11:11App Resources
- 11:57Custom Fonts
- 14:17Effects
- 16:50Screen Sizes
- 24:29Data Template Selector
- 26:13ListView Performance
- 27:29Simplify Layout Reduce Nesting
- 28:15Avoid Relative Layout
- 30:20Invalidation Cycle
- 32:20Layout Cycle
- 40:30Reduce Nesting
- 43:07Layout
- 44:37Grid
- 48:51Data Selector
- 49:23Layout Cycles
- 50:33Animation Framework
- 50:58PostLayout Animation
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