Adding a Calendar to Your Xamarin.Forms Apps with the Telerik Calendar

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Are you already building cross-platform native mobile apps using Xamarin.Forms? If so, great job picking your technology stack! After all, where else could you reuse your skills in C#/XAML to make apps that run on every platform with a truly unified single codebase? While Xamarin provides a vast array of frameworks, IDEs, and integrations, apps may sill need controls outside of those included in Xamarin.Forms. Rather than building your own custom control, developers may prefer to grab a well-engineered, performant UI control out-of-the-box from a service such as Telerik to help ship apps faster. Think of a polished UI as your must-have “wow” factor; that’s what you’ll get with Telerik UI for Xamarin.

Calendars keep our lives organized and productive; everyone uses them and increasingly so in digitally, so it’s no surprise that your mobile app may need to display a calendar and manage events. Turns out, however, calendar UI is tricky business, and the little details make all the difference.

The Telerik Calendar in UI for Xamarin is designed so you can offer your users the ultimate in productivity in your apps with various calendar scenarios. Yes, these are truly native calendars on every mobile platform, simply rendered through the Xamarin.Forms abstraction. The Telerik Calendar not only capitalizes on all of the innate benefits provided by native UI, it also exposes properties/events in C# to allow developers full customization and flexibility. This post introduces Telerik UI for Xamarin and then dives head first into leveraging the Telerik Calendar to explore all of the available customization options for developers.

Full article HERE.

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