Coming out of your Shell with Xamarin.Forms 4.0

A talk on the new Shell feature in Xamarin.Forms 4.0 to make navigation easier with an opinionated navigation experience.
Also covers Visual which allows you to have a consistent look and feel across your cross-platform application

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1. Coming out of your Shell (Visually) with Xamarin.Forms 4.0 @LuceCarter1
2. Xamarin.Forms 4.0 u Android Fast Renders u Accessibility Improvements u Image Source Unification u Shell @LuceCarter1
3. Xamarin.Forms Shell @LuceCarter1
4. Xamarin.Forms Shell @LuceCarter1
5. Traditional Way @LuceCarter1
6. Demo @LuceCarter1
7. Xamarin.Forms Visual u Native look and feel is great u What if you deliberately want the same look though? u Visual Material @LuceCarter1
8. Why? u Easier to support users u Focusing on one UI so faster to market u Helps if requiring approval such as governmental department @LuceCarter1
9. Demo @LuceCarter1
10. Visual - Renderer Process @LuceCarter1
11. Custom Visual Renderers u Create platform renderers for required view u Create type that inherits from IVisual u Register IVisual in ExportRenderer attribute u Reference your renderer name on Visual attribute on component @LuceCarter1
12. Summary u What Shell is u Situations it solves u How to get started u What Visual is u How to bring it into your app
13. Thank you! @LuceCarter1