Xamarin.Forms: customize Entry control

So, you want to customize Enty control appearance.

Let’s use standard customization options: TextColor, PlaceholderColor, BackgroundColor. I created a pair of Entries side by side for showcasing colors that can be easily customized.

We will have the following result

Let’s customize further. We are going to need customized control

entry — platform-specific control relation (from Microsoft)

You can read about this in detail in Microsoft site (it has a working example). But I will sum up steps of the procedure of creating customized Entry.

I. Creating MyEntry class

a) add MyEntry.cs file into your shared project

b) defining MyEntry as Entry