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Light and Dark Themes in Xamarin.Forms

By default Xamarin.Forms uses platform colors that respond to OS theme changes (light and dark), however you will very likely want to update your styles to use the specific colors you wish. The AppThemeBinding markup extension takes care of this for you.

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