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What are you using to theme your crosslight app

nicholaslie — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:23:03 GMT

Thanks for your insight Nick!

Currently we don't have any roadmaps for you on theming Crosslight app in a cross-platform manner, although we are planning to add more features on UI in the v3 roadmap.

What are you using to theme your crosslight app

nick5454@yahoo.com — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:34:11 GMT

Yeah, i understand your point. But, using a 3rd party app called "NativeCSS" you can reposition UIViews, their containers, and change the attributes based on a css type script which runs on top of Xamarin. They just call it CSS, even though it's not really. We've actually did a little demo for our boss using CrossLight to create the screens, then used NativeCSS to change the attributes of controls on both Android and iPhone. Whereas we set the css file on the web and did a poll every 5 seconds so we can change everyones native app in seconds while there using it.

I was not aware of your Item Binding with style attributes, however. I have a thread about changing positions open, can you answer that?

What are you using to theme your crosslight app

jevonchristian — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:07:02 GMT

Dear Nick,

Conceptually, Crosslight is assembled above Xamarin and Microsoft. Xamarin platforms enable developers to use C# language to build iOS and Android apps. Normally, if we wish to build apps for Android, we need to use Java. Likewise, if we wish to build apps for iOS, we would use Objective-C. Think Xamarin as the "translator" that allows us to achieve the same goal using a different language, which is C#.

Since Crosslight is built on top of Xamarin, it inherits the same nature. As a result Crosslight doesn't have CSS. The framework you're referring to is more compatible with hybrid mobile apps, which means, building mobile apps using HTML. Therefore, if you want to design your Crosslight mobile apps,you may refer each platform design to its corresponding native way.

Regards,

Jevon Christian

What are you using to theme your crosslight app

nick5454@yahoo.com — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:51:23 GMT

I am curious what people are using to style their apps? I plan on using the NativeCSS 3rd party. Is there any API's through cross light to do it, or what is everyone else using that their happy with?