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Prepare to use native controls

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Prepare to use native controls

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- [Instructor] Now I'd like to turn my attention to the controls that we use, and doing some native integration there. We go to our order form some thing's I'd like to add here, is a control that allows the user to rate the product that they're ordering, and I don't have anything out of the box that give me that, but I know that on Android I have a rating control, and on IOS I can use a segmented control to give me what I want. So I'm going to pull in those particular controls from those libraries. So I'm not going to use a zamron form control, I'm going to use a platforms specific control. In order to do that I'm going to add a name space prefix here for IOS, I'm going to do a clr-namespace, I'm going to hit Escape so Intellisense doesn't erase everything. UIKit, and then the assembly is going to be a Xamarin.IOS, and then I also need to add here a target platform that's also going to equal IOS again, I'm…

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