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User Interaction Using Controls

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Users choose dates, times, text, integers, doubles, and other values on mobile devices by using tactile controls. Touch-sensitive screens have user interaction that differs slightly from mouse-driven UIs: most is done with the thumbs and forefingers on the touchscreen. From the user’s standpoint, this results in a hands-on control-panel interface with switches, icons, sliders, keyboards, and pickers that sometimes look—but, more important, feel—like physical mechanisms.

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Hermes, D., Mazloumi, N. (2019). User Interaction Using Controls. In: Building Xamarin.Forms Mobile Apps Using XAML. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4030-4_5

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