Sometimes it is the simplest things that make me happy. I was digging through some Xamarin.Forms code on Github when I noticed the use of the Scale property on a view and I thought to myself, “Does that do what I think it does?”
Sure enough, it does. It will change the scale a view (control) to make it larger or smaller. The default is 1.0, which is normal size.
I was facing a design issue, at least on iOS where I needed to use a Switch but the normal size made it really seem out of place:
I needed something a little more subtle. After applying a Scale of 0.7, I ended up with this:
Which seems much more to size, given the circumstances of the control.
This is simulator work only at this point so I will really need to check it out on the real device to make sure that this scaling doesn’t cause usability issues.
