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Xamarin.Forms: How to Clip Images with Rounded Corners

I love watching trends in mobile design. Currently gradients are all the rage, but two trends that have been around for a while are rounded corners and circular images. A long time ago I created the Circle Image plugin for Xamarin.Forms that many developers know and love, but did you know that you can just use built in controls to get a circle or rounded corners? All you have to do is use a frame and set a few …

James Montemagno

Xamarin.Forms Image Caching in XAML

A lot of mobile applications have to deal with Images. There are a lot of awesome libraries for iOS and Android that will automatically download, optimize, and cache your images for you from a single line or two of code. Xamarin.Forms actually handles all of this for you automatically when you give the Image’s Source property an Image URL. You can read through the awesome documentation on the Xamarin developer …

James Montemagno

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