Deep Dive into the Quick Start of Xamarin.Forms

I have created Phoneword App of Xamarin.Forms by devotedly following the instruction of Xamarin.Forms Quickstart, and the Apps for both of iOS and Android are built simultaneously.

Some points that I learned from the Deep Dive of the Phoneword (Xamarin.Forms) are shown below:

• Three new projects (Phoneword, Phoneword_iOS, Phoneword_Droid) are created in a new Phoneword Solution. Phoneword project has shared code and UI, and are called Portable Class Library (PCL).
• Reference, Packages (NuGet Package?), Properties etc. are also created in the solution.
• By adding a new ContentPage XAML as the name of MainPage, two new files, MainPage.xaml and MainPage.xaml.cs are created, and UI functions are programmed in the files.
• In the Phoneword solution, UI architecture are:
• Pages: ContentPage
• Layout: StackLayout
• Views: Label, Entry, Button
• Cells: (not used in the Phoneword solution)
• No need to change App.xaml. MainPage are called in App.xaml.cs, and the first page of this App are shown on display. The architecture of the Phoneword solution are App ? MainPage ? PhoneTranslator.
• OnTranslator method responds the "Translate" button click.
• Other some technichs used in Phoneword:
• Enable/Disable Button (CallButton.IsEnable)
• Telephone call alert (Display.Alert)
• Use OpenURL to launch the system phone call of iPhone
• To correctly display each page on different platforms, use different Padding value