diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 2a558c7..1b04583 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,56 +2,21 @@ To take a single page design from a previous project that should look the same on iOS and Android, and attempt to recreate it using the latest Visual feature of Xamarin.Forms. -## Challenge Quick Start +# Results -This is testing **Visual**, not your prowess as a mobile developer. I want to learn how successful you are when using this new feature. Or not. +## Before +![](media/visual_before.png) -1. Fork this repository -2. Choose a single page design from a previous or current project to recreate from scratch. The more real world the better. Plus, you can reuse assets. -3. Open `VisualChallengePage.xaml`. Take an hour (or more if you really want to) and build that screen. Making it super functional doesn't matter, just how it looks and feels. -4. Submit a pull request of your progress back to this repository. Include: - - a screenshot of iOS and Android - - your feedback on what went well, and what didn't - - what you would like to see us doing differently in support of this goal: same design on iOS and Android +## After +![](media/visual_after.png) +## VISUAL Feedback +* Look nice. Will save a ton of custom control and custom styles out of the box. +* Interested in how we can roll out our own `VisualMarker` to handle app-wide theme/styles. +* It will be nice to have a way to set `Visual` app-wide. +* If introducing `Visual` to existing app, steps to the required package are not clear. Maybe a warning/error can be thrown if we set `Visual` but the Visual NuGet package is not installed or referenced. -# What is Visual? - -Visual is a new way to declare the "visual" design system you want rendering your native controls. By default, controls are renderered the way Apple and Google created them. With Visual, you can choose Material as the design system that will then render the same on iOS and Android. - -For example, this sample app sets the Visual preference on the application `Shell` and it is propogated to all controls in the application. - -``` - -``` - -Any control may override this propogation by declaring its own Visual preference: - -``` -