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Create a Shell application

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Create a Shell application

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- We've seen the use of Navigation page to move around through the application, but I want to show you something that was introduced in Xamarin.Forms four. If we go back to the Multi platform application, you may have noticed this Shell Forms App. And this is still a Xamarin.Forms application, but it uses a different route user interface element to manage the navigation. We'll call this HPlusShell, just to differentiate it. I'm just going to create a new solution here, I'll take all the defaults for everything else. And we'll see what this Shell application looks like, and how it's very similar to the application we created previously, and, what some of the differences are. Now the first thing you'll notice is there's a lot more in the shared library here, the HPlusShell project. And that's just because there's a lot of example View Models, Services, and Views. But if we go to App.xaml, and open it up, and notice…

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