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Re:Microsoft and Xamarin partner by w0rd-driven on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @11:43AM (#6726388)
I think XAML is that format, but it isn't without its pain points. You pretty much can't do animation without a tool like Blend unless you're a sadist.

It looks like Xamarin uses .AXML for Android (maybe a XAML flavor) but has to adhere to Interface Builder for iOS (http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/application_fu..., specifically the Visual Designer section). XAML likely won't gain any traction on those platforms though due to NiH on all sides. HTML/CSS is likely as close as we get for now but that isn't a "native view" in any of the platforms mentioned.

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Re:Microsoft and Xamarin partner by skrebbel on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @02:28PM (#6727751)
.AXML has no relation to XAML at all. It's just plain Android layouts: when doing plain Java Android dev, they're just .xml files. I believe that Xamarin made up a new extension for them because it allows them to easily associate the file extension with a special editor in the IDE (Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio/MonoDevelop).

Xamarin's Android interface builder is actually remarkably decent.

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Re:Microsoft and Xamarin partner by jpobst on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @04:04PM (#6728496)
Hah, that's exactly why I did it. :)

I couldn't easily associate .xml with the designer in VS since everyone uses .xml.

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