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How To Support Dark Mode In Xamarin.Forms (iOS & Android)

iOS 13 introduced dark mode, and it has taken mobile app design world by storm. Making app designers produce multiple experiences for their users. Android users have been enjoying this nifty feature for some time (to some extent, based on phone manufacturers). Android Q, however, has a dedicated dark mode option that brings dark mode front and center in Android as well. Fortunately, it is rather simple to add dark mode support to our Xamarin apps, as we will discover in this post. Or simply opt-out of it all together.

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Using FragmentTabHost with ViewPager

On my last project, I wanted to design one of the screens to look like Google Newsstand’s swiping tabs that were also scrollable and had an image between the ActionBar and the tabs.

Google News Screenshot

Google News Screenshot

 

I did not find any simple and useful solution to this that I could easily follow and implement in my app. So I created my own. Here’s how it looks like.

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