Xamarin.Forms Animations | The Xamarin Show: Snack Pack

This week, James is joined yet again by friend of the show Matt Soucoup, who shows us how to add delightfulness to your Xamarin.Forms app using the built-in Animation API. He walks us through the four types of animations that come standard with the Animation API and then combines them all to add some pizazz to a real-world app.
Show Links:
Documentation: Animation API: msou.co/9q
Sample code for simple animations: msou.co/9t
Sample code for MyWeather app: msou.co/9s
Slides from Matt's Xamarin.Forms Animation API conference talk: msou.co/9u
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[@patsad1360]

Please more animations to Xamarin :( to make it more and more modern

[@damiansuess]

Great video as always guys!! Keep it up

[@revtane9]

Xamarin is amazing, multi platform support 💯❤️

[@hirebestxamarindeveloper3690]

Great Video! Thanks for sharing! I just wanted to ask if this also works with ViewModels?

[@mattkenefick]

Is there any way to change the origin of the transformations from top left to center or bottom right?

[@delamberty]

What font style are you using? I like it.

[@ivandamyanov]

Seems like I won't get an answer but still, how are we supposed to do an animation on another element, after clicking a button, in MVVM...?

[@jbrillo3585]

I would use messaging center for that.

[@afsalc9674]

i am so happy to see visual studio in mac. the xamarin.form is really a good cross platform app developing tool. i really enjoying coding for mobile app and wpf app for my company hr app. i am think xamarin will give more updates and support for developer to continue with xamarin.form for their cross platform app developing tool.

[@uinzzz]

I love it

[@mattkenefick]

Also, why didn't the icon / text animate on Android?

[@bohansen2960]

will this be in a xaml style like a storyboard soon? i'd rather not use the code behind for this. just do in the xmal directly... any plans for that?

[@XamarinDevelopers]

There are some third party libraries that do this today: github.com/jsuarezruiz/Xamanimation

[@rostadeveloper]

Boy, he was so red at the end of the video XD

[@markiel55]

The problem with this showcasing is that creating animations in Xamarin Forms this way is too tedious and us devs have a little to no time implementing our custom animations. In my opinion, it would be a wiser move if there's some pre-defined extensions/properties we can just enable for every built-in controls.