Xamarin Forms are the most exciting library to come along in a long time; certainly for
mobile programmers.
They bring a whole new option to cross platform development: an abstraction layer that lets you write once, and run native on each of the platforms.
Write Once, Render Natively
This means, for example, when you create a tab page, it is rendered as a native tab page on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. This is accomplished using pre-defined elements each of which has a hidden renderer for each platform. Most of the time you don’t know or care how it is done, unless you want to create a custom (or customized) control.
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About Jesse Liberty
** Note ** Jesse is currently looking for a new position. You can learn more about him at https://jesseliberty.bio Thank you.
Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen online courses. His latest book, Building APIs with .NET, is now available wherever you buy your books.
Liberty was a Team Lead and Senior Software Engineer for various corporations, a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS. He is a 13 year Microsoft MVP.
mobile programmers. 
