Adding the font to a static resource

In a Xamarin.Forms app, we can define application-wide resources that we can use anywhere in our app. They are added in the same way as page-/view-specific resources but to the App.xaml file instead. Let's add a reference to FontAwesome that will be unified under one name in our Xamarin.Forms app, as follows:

1. In the News project, open App.xaml.
2. Add the following code marked in bold:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Application xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             xmlns:d="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms/design"
             xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/
              markup-compatibility/2006"
             mc:Ignorable="d"
             x:Class="News.App">
    <Application.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <OnPlatform...