{"id":46603,"date":"2020-04-06T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/?p=46603"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:15:23","slug":"magic-gradients-xamarinforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/magic-gradients-xamarinforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Gradients: Beautiful Backgrounds in Xamarin.Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog by Bohdan Benetskyi<\/a>. Bohdan is a Xamarin and .NET developer at PGS Software and works side by side Marcin Gierlasi\u0144ski<\/a> on Magic Gradients.<\/em><\/p>\n

Magic Gradients for Xamarin.Forms<\/h2>\n

Magic Gradients<\/a> is a NuGet that provide a possibility to add beautiful and enhanced gradients into Xamarin.Forms applications. This NuGet package supports all common Xamarin platforms, such as Android<\/strong>, iOS<\/strong> and UWP<\/strong>. It is built upon SkiaSharp<\/a> to draw a simple multi-color or multi-layer engaged gradients in Skia Surface(SKSurface<\/code>). We try to make it dead simple to start using it, you don't need anything to initialize at all platforms.<\/p>\n

Setting up and using Magic Gradients into your app will only take a few minutes. Here is a quick taste of what you can do with the library using it as a separate layer or background. <\/p>\n

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How to Install Magic Gradients?<\/h3>\n

At first take any of your applications or create a new one with Shell Template<\/strong>. Next step is to install Magic Gradients<\/code> NuGet. To do that you can:<\/p>\n