Fluent Design in Xamarin.Forms

Question

Fluent design by Microsoft are basically guidelines to design apps but they also include code snippets and tools on how to achieve them in UWP apps. A lot of tools and snippets are available for UWP but I cannot find anything for Xamarin.Forms.

How can Fluent design be implemented in Xamarin.Forms?

Answer 1

In my shop we use XAML for UI, you may have some luck writing fluent methods for C# UI code but I find the declarative nature of XAML to be fairly intuitive and easiest to use.

That being said you may want to explore Reactive UI for ViewModels. It's fluent in design right out of the box.

https://reactiveui.net/docs/guidelines/platform/xamarin-forms

var canExecute = this.WhenAnyValue(
    x => x.UserName, x => x.Password,
    (userName, password) => 
        !string.IsNullOrEmpty(userName) && 
        !string.IsNullOrEmpty(password));

LoadCommand = ReactiveCommand.CreateFromTask(LogOnAsync, canExecute);

LoadCommand.ThrownExceptions.Subscribe(error => { });