As promised, here is another release of one of my GitHub libraries for Xamarin! This time we are talking about the FloatingActionButton or “FAB”!

Here are some important links:

GitHub project: https://github.com/SuavePirate/Xamarin.Forms.Controls.FloatingActionButton
NuGet package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/SuaveControls.FloatingActionButton

Don’t forget to read up on my original post on how to create your own FloatingActionButton and how to use it: Xamarin.Controls – Xamarin.Forms FloatingActionButton (including iOS!)

Documentation

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Xamarin.Forms.Controls.FloatingActionButton

A custom view to create a FloatingActionButton for both Android and iOS as part of Material Design

That’s right, even on iOS!

How to use

Clone the repository and open include the src projects in your Xamarin.Forms and Platform projects.

Now Available on NuGet!

Install-Package SuaveControls.FloatingActionButton

Special note for iOS: Make sure to call FloatingActionButtonRenderer.InitRenderer(); in your AppDelegate.cs in order to avoid linking it out.

Then you can include it in your XAML or call it from C# (See the example projects for a demo):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:SuaveControls.FabExample"
             xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:SuaveControls.Views;assembly=SuaveControls.FloatingActionButton"
             x:Class="SuaveControls.FabExample.MainPage">
    <StackLayout Margin="32">
        <Label Text="This is a Floating Action Button!" 
           VerticalOptions="Center" 
           HorizontalOptions="Center"/>

        <controls:FloatingActionButton x:Name="FAB" HorizontalOptions="CenterAndExpand" WidthRequest="50" HeightRequest="50"  VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand" Image="ic_add_white.png" ButtonColor="#03A9F4" Clicked="Button_Clicked"/>
    </StackLayout>
</ContentPage>

Android Example

iOS Example

TODO:

• Make it more flexible. Add Different color states, add sizing adjustments, etc.
• Create UWP implementation
• Create Xamarin Component

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