A while back I talked about building your own Markdown Label / TextView to your Xamarin applications including Xamarin Native and Xamarin Forms. I decided to put the control I’ve been working off of over on NuGet so anyone can use its basic form.

Note that this control isn’t final, I am working on some refactoring and enhancements, but if you want something that just works, then give it a shot, or contribute to the repository!

• NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/MarkdownTextView.Forms
• GitHub: https://github.com/SuavePirate/MarkdownTextView

Previous Posts

• Xamarin.Controls – Creating your own Markdown TextBlock in UWP
• Xamarin.Controls – Creating Your Own iOS Markdown UILabel
• Xamarin.Controls – Creating Your Own Android Markdown TextView
• Xamarin.Controls – MarkdownTextView

Down below you can find the documentation as it’s found on the GitHub repo!

MarkdownTextView

A Xamarin.Forms component to display markdown text in a TextView

Installation

Now on NuGet!

Install-Package MarkdownTextView.Forms

https://www.nuget.org/packages/MarkdownTextView.Forms

Usage

• Call Init before calling Xamarin.Forms.Init()
• iOS: SPControls.MarkdownTextView.iOS.MarkdownTextView.Init();
• Android: SPControls.MarkdownTextView.Droid.MarkdownTextView.Init();
• Use the control
• In Xaml:

<ContentPage ...
             xmlns:spcontrols="clr-namespace:SPControls.Forms;assembly=SPControls.MarkdownTextView"
             ...>
  <spcontrols:MarkdownTextView Markdown="{Binding MarkdownString}" />
</ContentPage>

• or in C#:

var mdTextView = new MarkdownTextView();
mdTextView.Markdown = "# this is my *header* tag";

TODO

• Add other properties for updating markdown settings
• Add text color settings
• Add UWP Support