{"id":28766,"date":"2016-11-23T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=28766"},"modified":"2016-11-23T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T19:47:27","slug":"introducing-xamarin-forms-2-3-3-native-view-declaration-and-platform-specifics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/introducing-xamarin-forms-2-3-3-native-view-declaration-and-platform-specifics\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Xamarin.Forms 2.3.3: Native View Declaration and Platform Specifics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tToday, we released <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\/77854\/xamarin-forms-2-3-3-stable\/p1\">Xamarin.Forms 2.3.3<\/a> to stable. In addition to a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/xamarin\/\/releases\/tag\/release-2.3.3\">plethora of bug fixes<\/a>, this release includes exciting new features, such as native view declaration and Platform-Specifics, which make it even easier to add platform-specific controls and functionality to your Xamarin.Forms apps.<\/p>\n<h2>Native View Declaration and Bindings<\/h2>\n<p>Xamarin.Forms already provided many different ways for you to add native controls to apps, from custom renderers and effects to native embedding. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/adding-bindable-native-views-directly-to-xaml\/\">Native view declaration<\/a> allows you to add bindable native iOS, Android, and Windows 10 controls directly to XAML, without requiring any additional configuration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/03\/68747470733a2f2f646c2e64726f70626f7875736572636f6e74656e742e636f6d2f752f313936363536392f6f7574322e676966.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Platform-Specifics<\/h2>\n<p>Often, developers want to add functionality that is only available on certain platforms to their Xamarin.Forms apps. Exposing this functionality within Xamarin.Forms isn&#8217;t tenable, as issues arise on platforms where the behavior isn&#8217;t implemented. To solve this issue, we&#8217;ve created something we call <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/bringing-platform-specific-functionality-to-xamarin-forms-apps\/\">Platform-Specifics<\/a>, which allow you to take advantage of awesome native functionality from within shared code via a fluent code API or XAML. Today, five Platform-Specifics are built into Xamarin.Forms, with even more to come in future releases.<\/p>\n<h2>Try Xamarin.Forms 2.3.3 Today<\/h2>\n<p>You can grab Xamarin.Forms 2.3.3 by updating your Xamarin.Forms NuGet in all projects, including platform projects and PCL (if applicable). Be sure not to &#8220;Update All&#8221;, as this updates all NuGets, and can break Xamarin.Forms&#8217; compatibility with the Android Support Libraries. 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