![]() ![]() ![]() The core of Material Design and Theming is bringing your brand identity to life with primary and accent colors that are applied throughout the app. ![]() There’s one last step once the latest SDK is installed, which is to set your Target framework to Android 6.0. Our release blog highlights all of the new features of Android Marshmallow. Xamarin.Forms is now compiled against Android 6.0 Marshmallow, which means for this release (and to use the new AppCompat) you must ensure you have downloaded the latest Android SDK and updated to the latest versions of Xamarin.Android from the stable channel. It’s important to only update Xamarin.Forms and not any of the Android support libraries, as the update will automatically bring in compatible versions of the support libraries. Inside of Xamarin Studio you’ll see updates available for Xamarin.Forms and if you are using this package. In Visual Studio, simply open up the NuGet package manager and update the Xamarin.Forms NuGet package. As of writing this article, Xamarin.Forms current release is 1. Update NuGets & Androidįirst things first, let’s update those NuGets. With the latest enhancements in Xamarin.Forms 1.5.1, you can easily utilize all of the new AppCompat features, including Material Design and Theme, with just a few changes to your app code. It has always been easy to add Material styling to Traditional Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms apps running Android Lollipop or greater, but it wasn’t until the introduction of the updated AppCompat v7 Support Library that devices running earlier versions of Android could enjoy the beauty of Material Theming. In the year since their original introductions, Material Design and the Material Theme have taken the Android world by storm. ![]()
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