Telerik UI for Xamarin is a collection of Xamarin.Forms controls and Xamarin bindings built on top of the native Telerik UI for iOS and UI for Android suites. 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. 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.

Yes, these are truly native calendars on every mobile platform, simply rendered through the Xamarin.Forms abstraction. 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.

Turns out, however, calendar UI is tricky business, and the little details make all the difference. Think of a polished UI as your must-have “wow” factor that’s what you’ll get with Telerik UI for Xamarin.Ĭalendars 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. 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. You may find him on Twitter as 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. Speaking on behalf of these awesome engineers of developer tooling is Sam Basu, a Developer Advocate for Telerik products and Xamarin aficionado.

This is a special guest post from the Progress team at Telerik, the makers of the Telerik UI suites.

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