Xamarin.Forms: SearchBar font size on windows phone

Question

I have a problem with styling the SearchBar for Windows phone. The font size is just unbearably huge and there is not property I can set directly. I've read a bit upon custom renederers (though I believe that's just overkill if I jsut wanted to set font size imho) but I really don't know how to even begin and it's the only thing now that's holding me back from being able to deploy to Windows Phone. I tried searching for it but uncle Google sadly let me down on this one. Any help is of course greatly appreciated.

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Answer 1

if you are using xaml then you can control style for different platforms like this:

<SearchBar x:Name="Search"
           Placeholder="Search"    
           TextChanged="SearchBar_OnTextChanged"  
           SearchButtonPressed="OnSearch" BackgroundColor="#19588F">
         <SearchBar.FontSize>
             <OnPlatform x:TypeArguments="x:Double"
                         WinPhone="10"
                         Android="22"
                         iOS="20" />
         </SearchBar.FontSize>
 </SearchBar>