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Mask animation with Xamarin.iOS and AutoLayout

In modern app development, we can't think only of writing good code and full of features applications. We also have to create beautiful user experiences, and there is where animations take part in the game. Most common animations will change elements size, position or visibility to bring them to life.   In one of our recent projects, a design team member had the idea of user interface elements that should be partially cropped depending on a score. Take a look to the image on the left that illustrates the concept.   There's probably more than one way to do it. Our solution was to make use of maskView property, available since iOS 8. As documentation says:   [eltd_blockquote text="The view’s alpha channel determines how much of...

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Grial UIKit review

A few weeks ago we got access to the Regular version of Grial UIKit for Xamarin.Forms. Grial UIKit comes with more than 30 awesome Xamarin.Forms' XAML screens which showcase this Xamarin Component, as well as, support for customization capabilities of Xamarin default controls, providing and unified Grial Theme that looks and feels great on every platform. Introduction Here, in Plain Concepts, we are always eager to leverage every platform in which we develop our apps for. We try to know as close as we could the strengths and weaknesses of the native UI frameworks of our platform apps, its customization capabilities, etc...

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