What are the best practices for integrating Telerik UI components in Xamarin.Forms for creating a seamless user experience in mobile app development?

[johnsmithappdev]

I'm currently working on a mobile app project using Xamarin.Forms and exploring ways to enhance the user interface and user experience. I've been integrating Telerik UI components and am impressed with their capabilities, but I want to ensure I'm following best practices for optimal performance and design consistency across Android and iOS platforms.

Specifically, I'm looking for advice on:

1. How to efficiently customize Telerik UI components to match app themes and branding.
2. Managing potential platform-specific issues during integration.
3. Any common pitfalls to avoid when working with Telerik controls in Xamarin.Forms.

If you've used Telerik UI components in your mobile app development projects, I’d love to hear your tips, workflows, or challenges you’ve faced. Your insights will be incredibly helpful for refining my development approach!

[Didi]

Hi John,

Direct to the questions:

1) How to efficiently customize Telerik UI components to match app themes and branding.

The Telerik controls have theming. This is described here: https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/xamarin/styling-and-appearance/xamarin-forms-theming/themes-overview 

In addition each control has customization/styling documentation article that explains the properties the control provides for customization.

2) Managing potential platform-specific issues during integration.

There are native controls we use for example, Chart, Calendar, etc. And if you want to further style the control outside of Xamarin.Forms, you need to access the native control and implement custom renderers/effect.

Native controls wrappers documentation: https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/xamarin/nativecontrols/overview 

3) Any common pitfalls to avoid when working with Telerik controls in Xamarin.Forms.

We have a public feedback portal where you can check the logged bug reports and feature requests: https://feedback.telerik.com/xamarin 

If you have any questions related to the Telerik Xamarin controls, open a support ticket and share your feedback and comments.

In general, I can suggest you migrate the app to .NET MAUI - the evolution of Xamarin.Forms. We have a .NET MAUI controls. You can review them here: https://www.telerik.com/maui-ui 

Hope these information answers your questions.

Regards,
Didi
Progress Telerik

[johnsmithappdev]

Hi Didi,
Thank you for the detailed response and for providing such useful resources. The theming documentation is exactly what I needed to dive deeper into customization, and I’ll explore the native controls wrappers for handling platform-specific styling more efficiently.