I'm new to Xamarin and coding altogether. I was wondering can i drag and drop to create the UI or are there any applications online i can drag and drop then copy the code over?
Thanks
No. Xamarin Forms does not have any drag-drop design tools. Most devs layout their UI by coding XAML.
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I need to design bottom navigation bar like I attached image using xamarin.forms common code for both android and IOS. Can anybody refer any link or library tool to do this?
You should check the xamarin community toolkit, this is certainly possible to create with the tabview.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/community-toolkit/views/tabview
So I am creating an app in Xamarin forms. I am an experienced .net developer but my Xamarin forms knowledge is still in the early stages.
I want to create a new custom control (Scheduler / Timeline control) that looks like the following picture:
My first idea was to start from controls already existing in Xamarin forms like Grid,...
But now I am thinking, if it is maybe better to start from Android and IOS controls instead?
Is there somebody who has experience in making custom controls like this for Xamarin Forms, and can you point me in the right direction?
I am using Xamarin Forms as a primary framework, and I rely heavily on visual studio Xaml viewer. It came that I must use Page Renderers to get some native controls from Xamarin.iOS.
Is there anyway to display the native controls in Xaml viewer? What is the best way to design the native UI components within Xamarin?
Is there anyway to display the native controls in Xaml viewer?
Unfortunately , native controls can not display in Xaml Viewer.
What is the best way to design the native UI components within Xamarin?
If want to show native control in Viewer in IOS, just using IOS designer may be the best way to see native viewer, however this is not total viewer in Xaml Viewer.You also can just see part view in Xaml,so this also has a little regret.
I have for some days been reading on different forums about the issue of selecting a text and copying the text natively from a label in xamarin forms and it seems to be no straightforward way of implementing this.
My problem is that I need to present a large amount of data from a book in a label and the user should be able to select and copy a chunk of text from the label.
I moved on to present the data in an Editor component instead but then the user can edit the text in the Editor. Making the Editor component read-only doesn't solve the problem either.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
I recently faced the same business requirement. An Editor with Renderers customization on each platform was the solution for me.
In short, Android renderer leverages CustomSelectionActionModeCallback and CustomInsertionActionModeCallback properties of EditText to customize context menu for text selection and insertion, while iOS renderer is pretty straight-forward and sets Selectable and Editable properties of UITextView.
Check out my post with full code for Xamarin.Forms. You can also read posts on native Android and native iOS for more details.
I have the same requirement and I implemented CustomLabelRenderer for Android and iOS platform.
Is it possible to mix iOS Storyboards and Xamarin Forms within one application? I have a bunch of views that are easier to be created in Forms, but some which are heavily customized so we would need to create some of them in native code.
I would like to use Storyboards to create the native parts, but can't seem to find a way to navigate from a Forms page to a Storyboard and vice versa.
I don't mind doing it from code, just need to know the direction to look into and if it's even possible.
You can create native views using the concept of Custom Renderers (see links below). The idea is that you create a Xamarin Forms Control that's shared between all platforms and which old common properties (like colors, general data etc), and do the native rendering on the iOS/Android/WP projects.
So, for your storyboard, you can create it usign Xamarin.iOS, and render using a Custom Renderer. The link posted by #GSerg in the comments have some information and examples, but you can take a closer look at the oficial documentation as well:
Introduction to Custom Renderers
Customizing Controls on Each Platform
Customizing Control Rendering in Xamarin.Forms (video)
Also, for more real world examples you can take a look at the Xamarin Forms XLabs project.
Thanks to Rafael Steil's answer. I looked at the links and a few more samples.
Notably:
Custom Renderer Map
Using Xamarin Forms alongside Storyboard
And I created a sample project to show the back-and-forth navigation between Xamarin Forms and pages created in Storyboards. You can find it over here:
Xamarin Forms Mixed with Native