Complete Control of Flyout Items with Templates in Xamarin.Forms

David Ortinau - Dec 29 '20 - - Dev Community

Everything on a Xamarin.Forms flyout can be templated, and the first you'll likely want to customize is the flyout items themselves. You have bindable properties for things like the image and the title text, and visual states are propogated as well. You can define your template inline with the Shell file, or in a separate file. Both work with Hot Reload.

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