How to create a tablet UI with multiple ContentPages on one screen at the same time with Xamarin.Forms?

Question

I want to design a UI for tablets (Android & iOS) with Xamarin.Forms where I want to have multiple ContentPages

Answer 1

As far as I know you can't put multiple ContentPage items on the screen, at least not within the out-of-the-box Xamarin.Forms.

You can, however, put multiple ContentView items on the screen and you can reuse the ContentView items in stand-alone pages as well.

Essentially you can describe what you'd want to see on a single page as a ContentView and then make a page that just includes that

PhotoItem.xaml:

PhotoBucket.xaml:

  
    
     
       
          ... on list item tap do Navigation.PushAsync(new PhotoItemPage{BindingContext = itemTapped} );
       
      
     
        // Add two columns
         
            ... on list item tap do PhotoItem.BindingContext = itemTapped
         
         
      
    
   

PhotoItemPage.xaml: