More awesome iOS controls coming our way as Xamarin developers! I’ve gone ahead and added another UI control to NuGet which is an incredibly useful little notification manager to add badges to any control or any frame in our view.

Check out the NuGet and GitHub project:

NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/RKNotificationHub/
GitHub: https://github.com/SuavePirate/Xamarin-RKNotificationHub

Documentation

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Xamarin RKNotificationHub

A Xamarin.iOS library for adding badges to any UIView, UIBarButtonItem, or position on the screen. You can also animate your badges!

Installation

Use NuGet!
Install-Package RKNotificationHub
https://www.nuget.org/packages/RKNotificationHub/

Usage

Once installed, create an RKNotificationHub.

var hub = new RKNotificationHub.RKNotificationHub(myView);
// or...
var hub = new RKNotificationHub.RKNotificationHub(myUIBarButtonItem);
// or...
var hub = new RKNotificationHub.RKNotificationHub();

You can then set or change the view or position of the circle:

hub.SetView(myView);
hub.SetCircleAtFrame(myFrame);

You can also set the color:

hub.SetCircleColor(circleColor, labelColor);

Then you can change the value of the notifcation:

hub.Increment();
hub.IncrementBy(10);
hub.Decrement();
hub.DecrementBy(10);
hub.HideCount();
hub.ShowCount();

And of course you can play with styles and animations!

hub.Bump();
hub.Blink();
hub.Pop();
hub.MoveCircleByX(x,y);
hub.ScaleCircleSizeBy(3);

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