Changes

** ❌ Avoid linebreaks in the middle of smaller elements (eg. a stackpanel with 2 texts inside).

** This is one of the most critical features of clear code, saving the reader from wasting time struggling to read the code, or even having to search and ask around.

** Use comments to describe the position, purpose, and function of every control.

** [[XAML_Best_practices#Performance | Read more in the next section on Performance]].

** When working in Xamarin, it is recommended to empty out your UBIKThemes file (ie. delete everything between the <ResourceDictionary> tags) and only add what you intend to customize.

** Unfortunately, this approach is currently not 100% possible in UWP xamls, as we noticed that custom styles are not utilized on controls unless the controls are also in UBIKThemes, shown instead using the standard grey/orange. However, diligent customizers can find out how to do so below: <div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" data-expandtext="Read More" data-collapsetext="Close"> An issue with dynamically refreshing style resources causes emptying of UBIKThemes to be much more complicated on UWP than in Xamarin.<br>This is because StaticResources are only updated once they are overwritten again in Themes. The most common symptom of this issue is that for example, if UBIKAccentColor is changed to blue, this customization will not be reflected by styles for any control defined in UBIKThemes, unless the styles are 'written' again in UBIKThemes. So in this example, the regular button hover state will remain orange, unless UBIKButtonStyle is included in the UBIKThemes of that project.<br>Therefore, the only approach we can recommend is to remove everything from UBIKThemes, and add styles back once they fail to reflect the customized color resources. Since this approach is impractical, we do not encourage emptying UBIKThemes for UPW as strongly as we do for Xamarin.

<nowiki><!--#region Text Styles-->, <!--#region DataTemplates-->, or <!--#region Item Templates--></nowiki>.

== Performance ==