From the course: Mastering Xamarin.Forms Development: 3 Styles and Theming

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Using built-in themes

Using built-in themes

- [Instructor] Okay, we're back over in Visual Studio 2017 in our Xamarin forms paperboy app. Take a look at using built-in themes. This concept of global themes now in Xamarin forms. First thing I want to point out is since this is a newer feature Xamarin forms, there is a Nuget package that's require to implement themes and let's just open up manage Nuget packages to take a look at it. So the NuGet package is called XamarinForms.Theme. You'll notice how it says there are no packages found in this release of Visual Studio. Depending on the version of Visual Studio you have or the version of Xamarin forms you have, that may show up for you. If you don't have it show up, you can just say simply include prerelease and you'll notice that we have the XamarinForms.ThemeBase and then we have a light and a dark theme that becomes available. These will need to be installed in order to take advantage of built in global theming. So that being said, implementing theming is so incredibly simple…

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