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This is not a real use case, but for simplicity i want to create a button in an Android Class Library to be able to use that button in several Xamarin solution.
I have seen that, when creating a Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms) solution it has an android project and an Xamarin forms project. The android project has a layout folder with some page designs. Instead of designing a whole page through the use of layouts, is it possible to only describe the design of a single button, in one of those layout xml files?

Do you want to create a new button and use the button in several pages's layout , right?

If yes, you can use define a xml( MyButton.xml ) in folder layout and include it in other page's layout .
You can refer to the following code:

MyButton.xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <Button xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:id="@+id/mBtn"
     android:layout_width="200dp"
     android:layout_height="50dp"
     android:text="my button"
     android:textColor="@android:color/holo_red_dark"
     android:background="@android:color/holo_orange_light"
     >
 </Button>

And include above button on other page's layout:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     android:orientation="vertical"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="match_parent">
    
     <include
         layout="@layout/mybutton"/>
    
 </LinearLayout>

Best Regards,

Jessie Zhang

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