Tag: Nuget

Xamarin.Forms MarkdownTextView NuGet Announcement!

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!

Previous Posts

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

MarkdownTextView

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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
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Xamarin.Controls – Material Form Control Updates

A while back I put together a GitHub repository for Material Design Controls for form elements (Entry, Picker, etc.) for Xamarin.Forms (iOS, Android, and UWP).
You can find some of the original posts about that here:

And you can find the GitHub repo and NuGet package here:

In this post, I wanted to focus on some of the newer features I’ve added to the latest 2018.1.28-pre1 release.

The gist is:

  • Invalid vs. Valid State
  • Font updates
  • Color flexibility

With these, you can now specify updated default colors, invalid state colors, and the original focused accent colors.
Here’s an example of a Style resource that uses these:

    <!-- Material Entry Styles -->
    <Style x:Key="PrimaryMaterialEntry" TargetType="material:MaterialEntry">
        <Setter Property="AccentColor" Value="{DynamicResource PrimaryColor}"/>
        <Setter Property="DefaultColor" Value="Gray"/>
        <Setter Property="InvalidColor" Value="Red"/>
    </Style>

What does validation state mean? You can attach behaviors to easily add validation to your material form controls. Here is an example behavior on the MaterialEntry that requires a length, and sets the state:

   /// <summary>
    /// Material entry length behavior. Allows for the limitation of the text with a min and max length
    /// </summary>
    public class MaterialEntryLengthValidationBehavior : Behavior<MaterialEntry>
    {
        public int MaxLength { get; set; }
        public int MinLength { get; set; } = 0;

        /// <summary>
        /// Attach events on attachment to view
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="bindable">Bindable.</param>
        protected override void OnAttachedTo(MaterialEntry bindable)
        {
            base.OnAttachedTo(bindable);
            bindable.TextChanged += OnEntryTextChanged;
            bindable.EntryUnfocused += Bindable_EntryUnfocused;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Detach events on detaching from view
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="bindable">Bindable.</param>
        protected override void OnDetachingFrom(MaterialEntry bindable)
        {
            base.OnDetachingFrom(bindable);
            bindable.TextChanged -= OnEntryTextChanged;
            bindable.EntryUnfocused -= Bindable_EntryUnfocused;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Stop text input once max is hit
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender">Sender.</param>
        /// <param name="e">E.</param>
        void OnEntryTextChanged(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            var entry = (Entry)sender;

            if (entry.Text == null)
                return;

            // if Entry text is longer than valid length
            if (entry.Text.Length > this.MaxLength)
            {
                string entryText = entry.Text;

                entryText = entryText.Remove(entryText.Length - 1); // remove last char

                entry.Text = entryText;
            }


        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Set invalid on unfocus if the min is not met
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender">Sender.</param>
        /// <param name="e">E.</param>
        void Bindable_EntryUnfocused(object sender, FocusEventArgs e)
        {
            var entry = (MaterialEntry)sender;
            if (MinLength > 0)
            {
                if (entry.Text == null || entry.Text.Length < this.MinLength)
                {
                    entry.IsValid = false;
                }
                else
                {
                    entry.IsValid = true;
                }
            }
        }
    }

Then you can attach it to a MaterialEntry

<material:MaterialEntry Placeholder="CVV" Keyboard="Numeric" Text="{Binding CVV}" Style="{DynamicResource PrimaryMaterialEntry}">
    <material:MaterialEntry.Behaviors>
        <behaviors:MaterialEntryLengthValidationBehavior MaxLength="3" MinLength="3"/>
    </material:MaterialEntry.Behaviors>
</material:MaterialEntry>

And then you get:
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These validation states, and updated color properties are available on all the Material Forms controls, so install the preview nuget package and get started!

Install-Package MaterialFormControls -Version 2018.1.28-pre1

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Xamarin.NuGet – Native Behaviors

I’ve been doing a lot of mix development between Xamarin.Forms and Native Xamarin iOS/Android. Because of this, we abstract away concepts that can be shared regardless of using Xamarin.Forms or not. One thing I personally like, and use all the time, is Xamarin.Forms Behaviors. I wanted a way to use the same pattern with my native components. I went ahead and created NativeBehaviors.

Get it

Concepts

Like mentioned above, we wanted to follow the same style as Xamarin.Forms Behaviors without having a dependency on Xamarin.Forms. You can create a NativeBehavior for any native control, and then handle attaching and detaching the behavior within the lifecycle of your ViewController, Activity, Fragment, etc.

This helps us keep our event handling cleaned up in memory while still being useful, easy to follow, re-usable, and flexible.

Documentation

Read below for the documentation on how to build your own NativeBehaviors and start making your controls more flexible!

NativeBehaviors

A behaviors implementation for Xamarin Native controls meant to reflect the usefulness of Xamarin.Forms.Behaviors

Installation

This project is up on NuGet now:

Install-Package NativeBehaviors

Usage

These behaviors are meant to reflect the same use as Xamarin.Forms Behaviors, but require a little more work to manage the lifecycle of events since native views don’t have a collection of Behaviors as a property.

  1. Create a custom Behavior on your native platform. This example will use an iOS UITextField

TextFieldPhoneMaskBehavior.cs

/// <summary>
/// Text field phone mask behavior.
/// Format of (###) ###-####
/// </summary>
public class TextFieldPhoneMaskBehavior : NativeBehavior<UITextField>
{
    public override string BehaviorName => nameof(TextFieldPhoneMaskBehavior);

    private string _previousText = string.Empty;
    /// <summary>
    /// Attach text changed event
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="bindable">Bindable.</param>
    protected override void OnAttachedTo(UITextField bindable)
    {
        bindable.EditingChanged += Bindable_TextChanged;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Detach event
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="bindable">Bindable.</param>
    protected override void OnDetachingFrom(UITextField bindable)
    {
        bindable.EditingChanged -= Bindable_TextChanged;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Apply mask
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="sender">Sender.</param>
    /// <param name="e">E.</param>
    void Bindable_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var textField = sender as UITextField;

        // only apply change if typing forward
        if (textField != null && textField.Text.Length > _previousText.Length)
        {
            if (textField.Text.Length == 1)
            {
                // we have our first number, add the ( behind it
                textField.Text = $"({textField.Text}";
            }
            if (textField.Text.Length == 4)
            {
                // finish the area code
                textField.Text += ") ";
            }
            if (textField.Text.Length == 9)
            {
                // add dash
                textField.Text += "-";
            }
        }
        _previousText = textField.Text;
    }
}
  1. Attach Behavior in lifecycle

MyViewController.cs

using NativeBehaviors; // needed for extension method
...
private TextFieldPhoneMaskBehavior _phoneMaskBehavior;

protected override void ViewWillAppear(bool animated)
{
    ...
    _phoneMaskBehavior = new TextFieldPhoneMaskBehavior();
    myTextField.AttachBehavior(_phoneMaskBehavior);
    ...
}
...
  1. Detach Behavior in lifecycle

MyViewController.cs

using NativeBehaviors; // needed for extension method
...
protected override void ViewDidDisappear()
{
    ...
    myTextField.DetachBehavior(_phoneMaskBehavior);
    ...
}
...

Use the OnCreate and OnDestroy events in your Android Activities.

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Xamarin.NuGet – Xamarin.Forms Dynamic Bindable StackLayout

I recently released a component I commonly use in my Xamarin.Forms applications for binding data to a wrapping layout here: Xamarin.NuGet – DynamicWrapLayout Announcement! In the spirit of this type of control, I’ve also released a new NuGet package for a bindable DynamicStackLayout. It’s a simple control that allows you to create a StackLayout and bind an ItemsSource collection and an ItemTemplate. This is useful for smaller, but dynamic collections with the use of the orientation changing of a StackLayout. This means you could have a horizontally scrolling list of cards, bind the orientation or change it to vertical, and play with positioning more easily than using a ListView. I would still highly suggest using a ListView over this control for a standard vertical stack of dynamic content since this control does NOT use any view recycling or virtualization which can cause performance issues with large collections or constantly changing collection.

Get it here

NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/DynamicStackLayout

Github: https://github.com/SuavePirate/DynamicStackLayout

In the end, you get something like this!

Be sure to read the documentation below:

DynamicStackLayout

A Xamarin.Forms layout for creating dynamically wrapped views. Inspired by the WrapLayout example: https://developer.xamarin.com/samples/xamarin-forms/UserInterface/CustomLayout/WrapLayout/

Installation

It’s on NuGet! https://www.nuget.org/packages/DynamicStackLayout/

Install-Package DynamicStackLayout

Be sure to install in all projects that use it.

Usage

There are two key properties that make this control useful – the ItemsSource (like a ListView) and the ItemTemplate (although, you can also just add children to the view – it does both!)
Be sure to wrap it in a ScrollView though

XAML

Add the xmlns:

xmlns:suave=&quot;clr-namespace:SuaveControls.DynamicStackLayout;assembly=SuaveControls.DynamicStackLayout&quot;

Use it in your View:

&lt;ScrollView&gt;
    &lt;suave:DynamicStackLayout ItemsSource=&quot;{Binding Items}&quot; HorizontalOptions=&quot;Fill&quot;&gt;
        &lt;suave:DynamicStackLayout.ItemTemplate&gt;
            &lt;DataTemplate&gt;
                &lt;StackLayout BackgroundColor=&quot;Gray&quot; WidthRequest=&quot;120&quot; HeightRequest=&quot;180&quot;&gt;
                    &lt;Label Text=&quot;{Binding .}&quot; VerticalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; HorizontalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; VerticalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; HorizontalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; /&gt;
                &lt;/StackLayout&gt;
            &lt;/DataTemplate&gt;
        &lt;/suave:DynamicStackLayout.ItemTemplate&gt;
    &lt;/suave:DynamicStackLayout&gt;
&lt;/ScrollView&gt;

Don’t like data-binding and want to just use child views? You can do that too!

&lt;ScrollView&gt;
    &lt;suave:DynamicStackLayout HorizontalOptions=&quot;Fill&quot;&gt;
      &lt;StackLayout BackgroundColor=&quot;Gray&quot; WidthRequest=&quot;120&quot; HeightRequest=&quot;180&quot;&gt;
          &lt;Label Text=&quot;0&quot; TextColor=&quot;White&quot; VerticalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; HorizontalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; VerticalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; HorizontalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;/StackLayout&gt;
      &lt;StackLayout BackgroundColor=&quot;Gray&quot; WidthRequest=&quot;120&quot; HeightRequest=&quot;180&quot;&gt;
          &lt;Label Text=&quot;1&quot; TextColor=&quot;White&quot; VerticalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; HorizontalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; VerticalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; HorizontalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;/StackLayout&gt;
      &lt;StackLayout BackgroundColor=&quot;Gray&quot; WidthRequest=&quot;120&quot; HeightRequest=&quot;180&quot;&gt;
          &lt;Label Text=&quot;2&quot; TextColor=&quot;White&quot; VerticalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; HorizontalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; VerticalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; HorizontalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;/StackLayout&gt;
      &lt;StackLayout BackgroundColor=&quot;Gray&quot; WidthRequest=&quot;120&quot; HeightRequest=&quot;180&quot;&gt;
          &lt;Label Text=&quot;3&quot; TextColor=&quot;White&quot; VerticalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; HorizontalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; VerticalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; HorizontalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;/StackLayout&gt;
      &lt;StackLayout BackgroundColor=&quot;Gray&quot; WidthRequest=&quot;120&quot; HeightRequest=&quot;180&quot;&gt;
          &lt;Label Text=&quot;4&quot; TextColor=&quot;White&quot; VerticalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; HorizontalOptions=&quot;FillAndExpand&quot; VerticalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; HorizontalTextAlignment=&quot;Center&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;/StackLayout&gt;
    &lt;/suave:DynamicStackLayout&gt;
&lt;/ScrollView&gt;

Features

  • Bindable child views
  • Bindable to collections
  • Handles layout changing well (try rotating the device)
  • Doesn’t require custom renderers (All Xamarin.Forms baby!)

Notes

This does not use any native view virtualization, which means performance does not scale well with extremely large data sets.

Coming soon

  • ItemSelected event and SelectedItem bindable property (for now, you can add custom gestures and commands to your DataTemplate and handle the events yourself)
  • Better Collection Updating

 

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Xamarin.NuGet – DynamicWrapLayout Announcement!

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted about any new Xamarin Controls or updates, but here’s a great one!

I needed to create a layout that could bind to a collection of data in Xamarin.Forms that fit to a dynamic grid that also scaled to larger devices and orientation changes. I thought about creating a new custom renderer that uses the RecyclerView with a GridLayoutManager and a UICollectionView with a custom layout. However, I didn’t need to bind to tons of data, so I decided to create a new control that is entirely Xamarin.Forms – No custom renderers!

I’ve called it the DynamicWrapLayout since it was inspired by the WrapLayout from Charles Petzold and David Britch.

Get it on NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/DynamicWrapLayout/
Get the source on GitHub: https://github.com/SuavePirate/DynamicWrapLayout

Because it is all Xamarin.Forms, it should work on all the platforms that Forms supports! So use it everywhere! I’ll create another post about how I built it if you want to work on your own implementation, but for now, you can read the documentation on the control below.

Documentation

DynamicWrapLayout

A Xamarin.Forms layout for creating dynamically wrapped views. Inspired by the WrapLayout example: https://developer.xamarin.com/samples/xamarin-forms/UserInterface/CustomLayout/WrapLayout/

Installation

It’s on NuGet! https://www.nuget.org/packages/DynamicWrapLayout/

Install-Package DynamicWrapLayout

Be sure to install in all projects that use it.

Usage

There are two key properties that make this control useful – the ItemsSource (like a ListView) and the DataTemplate (although, you can also just add children to the view – it does both!)
Be sure to wrap it in a ScrollView though

XAML

Add the xmlns:

xmlns:suave="clr-namespace:SuaveControls.DynamicWrapLayout;assembly=SuaveControls.DynamicWrapLayout"

Use it in your View:

<ScrollView>
    <suave:DynamicWrapLayout ItemsSource="{Binding Items}" HorizontalOptions="Fill">
        <suave:DynamicWrapLayout.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                <StackLayout BackgroundColor="Gray" WidthRequest="120" HeightRequest="180">
                    <Label Text="{Binding .}" TextColor="White" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" />
                </StackLayout>
            </DataTemplate>
        </suave:DynamicWrapLayout.ItemTemplate>
    </suave:DynamicWrapLayout>
</ScrollView>

Don’t like data-binding and want to just use child views? You can do that too!

<ScrollView>
    <suave:DynamicWrapLayout HorizontalOptions="Fill">
      <StackLayout BackgroundColor="Gray" WidthRequest="120" HeightRequest="180">
          <Label Text="0" TextColor="White" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" />
      </StackLayout>
      <StackLayout BackgroundColor="Gray" WidthRequest="120" HeightRequest="180">
          <Label Text="1" TextColor="White" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" />
      </StackLayout>
      <StackLayout BackgroundColor="Gray" WidthRequest="120" HeightRequest="180">
          <Label Text="2" TextColor="White" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" />
      </StackLayout>
      <StackLayout BackgroundColor="Gray" WidthRequest="120" HeightRequest="180">
          <Label Text="3" TextColor="White" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" />
      </StackLayout>
      <StackLayout BackgroundColor="Gray" WidthRequest="120" HeightRequest="180">
          <Label Text="4" TextColor="White" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" />
      </StackLayout>
    </suave:DynamicWrapLayout>
</ScrollView>

Features

  • Bindable child views
  • Bindable to collections
  • Handles layout changing well (try rotating the device)
  • Doesn’t require custom renderers (All Xamarin.Forms baby!)

What does this thing look like?

Android:


iOS:


Notes

This does not use any native view virtualization, which means performance does not scale well with extremely large data sets.

Coming soon

  • ItemSelected event and SelectedItem bindable property (for now, you can add custom gestures and commands to your DataTemplate and handle the events yourself)
     

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Xamarin.iOS RKNotificationHub NuGet Announcement!

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

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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Xamarin.iOS UITextField Shaker NuGet Announcement!

Shake up those text boxes with the newest UITextFieldShaker now available on NuGet!

This is a Xamarin.iOS Binding Library around a popular iOS extension called UITextField+Shake developed by Andrea Mazzini.

Check out the binding GitHub here: https://github.com/SuavePirate/UITextFieldShaker
And the NuGet here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/UITextFieldShaker/

UITextFieldShaker

Be sure to check out the documentation here or on GitHub:

Documentation

UITextFieldShaker

A Xamarin.iOS Binding implementation of the UITextField+Shaker extension.

Installation

Use NuGet!

Install-Package UITextFieldShaker

https://www.nuget.org/packages/UITextFieldShaker

Usage

Simply include the namespace, and start calling Shake() on your UITextFields!

MyTextField.Shake();

There are a number of overloads to allow you to choose how many times it shakes, the delta between shakes, add an action when the shaking is done, choose the direction it shakes, and more.

void Shake();
void Shake(int times, nfloat delta);
void Shake(int times, nfloat delta, Action handler);
void Shake(int times, nfloat delta, double interval);
void Shake(int times, nfloat delta, double interval, Action handler);
void Shake(int times, nfloat delta, double interval, ShakeDirection shakeDirection);
void Shake(int times, nfloat delta, double interval, ShakeDirection shakeDirection, Action handler);

Start Shaking!

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Xamarin iOS Expanding Splash View NuGet Announcement!

Here’s another fun NuGet package I’ve put up for everyone: The ExpandingSplashView is a Xamarin.iOS Binding implementation of the CBZSplashView from CallumBoddy on GitHub: https://github.com/callumboddy/CBZSplashView

It allows you to create a quick expanding view and add it to any ViewController very easily. It also allows for you to create the expanding view from either a rasterized image such as a png icon, or from a vector icon using a UIBezierPath.

Here’s the NuGet Package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/ExpandingSplashView

And the GitHub project for the binding and NuGet: https://github.com/SuavePirate/ExpandingSplashView
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Be sure to read the documentation either below here or on the GitHub project!

Documentation

CBZSplashView

A Xamarin.iOS implementation of the popular iOS control CBZSplashView from @callumboddy

Credit where credit is due (I just spent a couple hours fighting with the binding libraries, but @callumboddy did the real work): https://github.com/callumboddy/CBZSplashView

Installation

You can either clone the repository and reference the CBZSplashView project, or you can now use NuGet!

Install-Package ExpandingSplashView

https://www.nuget.org/packages/ExpandingSplashView

Usage

This can be used on any view, but is best suited for covering an entire UIViewController. Simply create either a CBZSplashView, CBZRasterSplashView, or CBZVectorSplashView via their constructors or the static initializer within the CBZSplashView:

var splashView = new CBZRasterSplashView(someUIImage, someUIColor);

Then add the splashview to your View:

View.Add(splashView);

Then start your animation whenever you want:

splashView.StartAnimation();

Here’s an entire ViewController class example:

using System;

using UIKit;
using CBZSplashView;

namespace Example
{
    public partial class ViewController : UIViewController
    {
        private CBZSplashView.CBZSplashView _splashView;
        protected ViewController(IntPtr handle) : base(handle)
        {
        }

        public override void ViewDidLoad()
        {
            base.ViewDidLoad();

            var icon = UIImage.FromFile("snapchatIcon.png");

            _splashView = new CBZSplashView.CBZRasterSplashView(icon, UIColor.Yellow);

            View.Add(_splashView);

        }

        public override void ViewDidAppear(bool animated)
        {
            base.ViewDidAppear(animated);

            if (_splashView != null)
                _splashView.StartAnimation();
        }
    }
}

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Xamarin.Forms Floating Action Button NuGet Announcement

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

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

Android Floating Action Button

iOS Example

iOS Floating Action Button

TODO:

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

Come support the project and join the contributors list! We would love to see this TODO list dropped to nothing!

 

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Xamarin.Forms BadgeView NuGet Announcement!

As promised, here is another release of one of my GitHub libraries for Xamarin! This time we are talking about the BadgeView​!

Here are some important links:

GitHub project: https://github.com/SuavePirate/BadgeView
NuGet package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/BadgeView

Don’t forget to read up on my original post on how to create your own BadgeView and how to use it: Xamarin.Controls – BadgeView

Documentation

 

BadgeView

A simple Xamarin.Forms control to display a round badge

Now available on nuget! https://www.nuget.org/packages/BadgeView

Installation

Install-Package BadgeView

Usage

<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms" xmlns:badge="clr-namespace:BadgeView.Shared;assembly=BadgeView.Shared" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml" x:Class="BadgeViewExample.BadgePage">
    <ContentPage.Content>
        <StackLayout Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalOptions="CenterAndExpand" VerticalOptions="Center">
            <Label HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" Text="Look at me!" />
            <badge:BadgeView Text="3" BadgeColor="Green" VerticalOptions="Center" HorizontalOptions="End" />
        </StackLayout>
    </ContentPage.Content>
</ContentPage>

With Bindings

<badge:BadgeView Text="{Binding BadgeNumber}" BadgeColor="{Binding BadgeColor}" VerticalOptions="Center" HorizontalOptions="End" />

Without XAML

var badge = new BadgeView()
{
    Text = "4",
    BadgeColor = Color.Red
};

Additional Resources

Check out my blog post on how to build your own if you want!
https://alexdunn.org/2017/03/15/xamarin-controls-badgeview/

 

// TODO:

I’m still working on adding UWP support, but if you want to help contribute to the repository, please do!

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