Currently I have strange problems that remind me of working with the WPF Dispatcher from earlier times.
In WPF my workaround was to increase the dispatcher invoke priority.
In Xamarin Android I work around this issue by calling
uiProgressBar.Invalidate(); uiProgressBar.RequestLayout();
at specific stages to force and update.
A short description of my scenario:
I am using a ListView. Every list element has a ProgressBar. When I start updating serveral ProgressBar's in parallel the GUI descides to stop updating the progress after some time but keeps responsive to touch events, pan, etc.
I am working with async await.
I have also noticed that the problem mainly occures when using Release Mode with the option "Bundle assemblies into native code".
Hopefully someone can help me, or tell me if this is a bug or expected behavior.
Thank you for help in advance.
Hopefully someone can help me, or tell me if this is a bug or expected behavior. Thank you for help in advance.
For any data changes inside a ListView, you should use adapter.NotifyDataSetInvalidated(); to let ListView update all the items. I don't see your detailed codes, so what I can provide is just an Example:
ProgressBarAdapter.cs:
public class ProgressBarAdapter:BaseAdapter
{
Context _context;
public List<Model> _items;
public ProgressBarAdapter(Context context,List<Model> items)
{
_context = context;
_items = items;
}
public override int Count => _items.Count;
public override Java.Lang.Object GetItem(int position)
{
return _items[position];
}
public override long GetItemId(int position)
{
return _items[position].id;
}
public override View GetView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
{
ProgressBar bar = null;
if (convertView != null)
{
bar = convertView as ProgressBar;
}
else
{
bar=(ProgressBar)(_context as MainActivity).LayoutInflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.ListViewItem,null);
}
bar.Progress = _items[position].value;
return bar;
}
}
If you want to change the data, instead of accessing the Android View directly, you should simply change the _items of Adapter:
adapter._items= InitList(20);
private List<Model> InitList(int start=0)
{
List<Model> list = new List<Model>();
for (int i = start; i < 50; i++)
{
list.Add(new Model {
id=i,
value=i
});
}
return list;
}
And call NotifyDataSetInvalidated:
adapter.NotifyDataSetInvalidated();
Related
I'm making an app with using Xamarin.forms.
You might know forms' button is not enough to use as image button if you tried one.
So I use Image as a button and add gesturerecogniger. It's working fine.
Good thing is that I can use all Image's bindable property same like using Image. (like 'Aspect property' and else)
Only problem is that Android button has sound effect when it's pressed.
Mine doesn't have.
How to play default button sound on Android?
[another try]
I tried to make layout and put Image and empty dummy button on it.
But If I do this, I can't use any property of Image or Button unless I manually link it.
So I think it's not the right way.
Thanks.
Xamarin.Android:
var root = FindViewById<View>(Android.Resource.Id.Content);
root.PlaySoundEffect(SoundEffects.Click);
Android playSoundEffect(int soundConstant)
Xamarin.iOS
UIDevice.CurrentDevice.PlayInputClick();
Xamarin.Forms via Dependency Service:
public interface ISound
{
void KeyboardClick () ;
}
And then implement the platform specific function.
iOS:
public void KeyboardClick()
{
UIDevice.CurrentDevice.PlayInputClick();
}
Android:
public View root;
public void KeyboardClick()
{
if (root == null)
{
root = FindViewById<View>(Android.Resource.Id.Content);
}
root.PlaySoundEffect(SoundEffects.Click);
}
Xamarin Forms:
PCL interface:
interface ISoundService { void Click(); }
Click handler:
void Handle_OnClick(object sender, EventArgs e) {
DependencyService.Get<ISoundService>().Click();
}
Android:
public class MainActivity {
static MainActivity Instance { get; private set; }
OnCreate() {
Instance = this;
}
}
class SoundService : ISoundService {
public void Click() {
var activity = MainActivity.Instance;
var view = activity.FindViewById<View>(
Android.Resource.Id.Content);
view.PlaySoundEffect(SoundEffects.Click);
}
}
Take a look at the following:
MonoTouch.UIKit.IUIInputViewAudioFeedback
Interface that, together with the UIInputViewAudioFeedback_Extensions class, comprise the UIInputViewAudioFeedback protocol.
See Also: IUIInputViewAudioFeedback
https://developer.xamarin.com/api/type/MonoTouch.UIKit.IUIInputViewAudioFeedback/
You'll want something like this (untested):
public void SomeButtonFunction()
{
SomeBtn.TouchUpInside += (s, e) => {
UIDevice.CurrentDevice.PlayInputClick();
};
}
I have the following code in my Android app, it basically uses one page (using a NavigationDrawer) and swaps fragments in/out of the central view. This allows the navigation to occur on one page instead of many pages:
Setup.cs:
protected override IMvxAndroidViewPresenter CreateViewPresenter()
{
var customPresenter = new MvxFragmentsPresenter();
Mvx.RegisterSingleton<IMvxFragmentsPresenter>(customPresenter);
return customPresenter;
}
ShellPage.cs
public class ShellPage : MvxCachingFragmentCompatActivity<ShellPageViewModel>, IMvxFragmentHost
{
.
.
.
public bool Show(MvxViewModelRequest request, Bundle bundle)
{
if (request.ViewModelType == typeof(MenuContentViewModel))
{
ShowFragment(request.ViewModelType.Name, Resource.Id.navigation_frame, bundle);
return true;
}
else
{
ShowFragment(request.ViewModelType.Name, Resource.Id.content_frame, bundle, true);
return true;
}
}
public bool Close(IMvxViewModel viewModel)
{
CloseFragment(viewModel.GetType().Name, Resource.Id.content_frame);
return true;
}
.
.
.
}
How can I achieve the same behavior in a Windows UWP app? Or rather, is there ANY example that exists for a Windows MvvmCross app which implements a CustomPresenter? That may at least give me a start as to how to implement it.
Thanks!
UPDATE:
I'm finally starting to figure out how to go about this with a customer presenter:
public class CustomPresenter : IMvxWindowsViewPresenter
{
IMvxWindowsFrame _rootFrame;
public CustomPresenter(IMvxWindowsFrame rootFrame)
{
_rootFrame = rootFrame;
}
public void AddPresentationHintHandler<THint>(Func<THint, bool> action) where THint : MvxPresentationHint
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
public void ChangePresentation(MvxPresentationHint hint)
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
public void Show(MvxViewModelRequest request)
{
if (request.ViewModelType == typeof(ShellPageViewModel))
{
//_rootFrame?.Navigate(typeof(ShellPage), null); // throws an exception
((Frame)_rootFrame.UnderlyingControl).Content = new ShellPage();
}
}
}
When I try to do a navigation to the ShellPage, it fails. So when I set the Content to the ShellPage it works, but the ShellPage's ViewModel is not initialized automatically when I do it that way. I'm guessing ViewModels are initialized in MvvmCross using OnNavigatedTo ???
I ran into the same issue, and built a custom presenter for UWP. It loans a couple of ideas from an Android sample I found somewhere, which uses fragments. The idea is as follows.
I have a container view which can contain multiple sub-views with their own ViewModels. So I want to be able to present multiple views within the container.
Note: I'm using MvvmCross 4.0.0-beta3
Presenter
using System;
using Cirrious.CrossCore;
using Cirrious.CrossCore.Exceptions;
using Cirrious.MvvmCross.ViewModels;
using Cirrious.MvvmCross.Views;
using Cirrious.MvvmCross.WindowsUWP.Views;
using xxxxx.WinUniversal.Extensions;
namespace xxxxx.WinUniversal.Presenters
{
public class MvxWindowsMultiRegionViewPresenter
: MvxWindowsViewPresenter
{
private readonly IMvxWindowsFrame _rootFrame;
public MvxWindowsMultiRegionViewPresenter(IMvxWindowsFrame rootFrame)
: base(rootFrame)
{
_rootFrame = rootFrame;
}
public override async void Show(MvxViewModelRequest request)
{
var host = _rootFrame.Content as IMvxMultiRegionHost;
var view = CreateView(request);
if (host != null && view.HasRegionAttribute())
{
host.Show(view as MvxWindowsPage);
}
else
{
base.Show(request);
}
}
private static IMvxWindowsView CreateView(MvxViewModelRequest request)
{
var viewFinder = Mvx.Resolve<IMvxViewsContainer>();
var viewType = viewFinder.GetViewType(request.ViewModelType);
if (viewType == null)
throw new MvxException("View Type not found for " + request.ViewModelType);
// Create instance of view
var viewObject = Activator.CreateInstance(viewType);
if (viewObject == null)
throw new MvxException("View not loaded for " + viewType);
var view = viewObject as IMvxWindowsView;
if (view == null)
throw new MvxException("Loaded View is not a IMvxWindowsView " + viewType);
view.ViewModel = LoadViewModel(request);
return view;
}
private static IMvxViewModel LoadViewModel(MvxViewModelRequest request)
{
// Load the viewModel
var viewModelLoader = Mvx.Resolve<IMvxViewModelLoader>();
return viewModelLoader.LoadViewModel(request, null);
}
}
}
IMvxMultiRegionHost
using Cirrious.MvvmCross.ViewModels;
using Cirrious.MvvmCross.WindowsUWP.Views;
namespace xxxxx.WinUniversal.Presenters
{
public interface IMvxMultiRegionHost
{
void Show(MvxWindowsPage view);
void CloseViewModel(IMvxViewModel viewModel);
void CloseAll();
}
}
RegionAttribute
using System;
namespace xxxxx.WinUniversal.Presenters
{
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class)]
public sealed class RegionAttribute
: Attribute
{
public RegionAttribute(string regionName)
{
Name = regionName;
}
public string Name { get; private set; }
}
}
These are the three foundational classes you need. Next you'll need to implement the IMvxMultiRegionHost in a MvxWindowsPage derived class.
This is the one I'm using:
HomeView.xaml.cs
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using Windows.Foundation;
using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation;
using Cirrious.MvvmCross.ViewModels;
using Cirrious.MvvmCross.WindowsUWP.Views;
using xxxxx.Shared.Controls;
using xxxxx.WinUniversal.Extensions;
using xxxxx.WinUniversal.Presenters;
using xxxxx.Core.ViewModels;
namespace xxxxx.WinUniversal.Views
{
public partial class HomeView
: MvxWindowsPage
, IMvxMultiRegionHost
{
public HomeView()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
// ...
public void Show(MvxWindowsPage view)
{
if (!view.HasRegionAttribute())
throw new InvalidOperationException(
"View was expected to have a RegionAttribute, but none was specified.");
var regionName = view.GetRegionName();
RootSplitView.Content = view;
}
public void CloseViewModel(IMvxViewModel viewModel)
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
public void CloseAll()
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
}
}
The last piece to make this work is the way the actual xaml in the view is set-up. You'll notice that I'm using a SplitView control, and that I'm replacing the Content property with the new View that's coming in in the ShowView method on the HomeView class.
HomeView.xaml
<SplitView x:Name="RootSplitView"
DisplayMode="CompactInline"
IsPaneOpen="false"
CompactPaneLength="48"
OpenPaneLength="200">
<SplitView.Pane>
// Some ListView with menu items.
</SplitView.Pane>
<SplitView.Content>
// Initial content..
</SplitView.Content>
</SplitView>
EDIT:
Extension Methods
I forgot to post the two extension methods to determine if the view declares a [Region] attribute.
public static class RegionAttributeExtentionMethods
{
public static bool HasRegionAttribute(this IMvxWindowsView view)
{
var attributes = view
.GetType()
.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(RegionAttribute), true);
return attributes.Any();
}
public static string GetRegionName(this IMvxWindowsView view)
{
var attributes = view
.GetType()
.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(RegionAttribute), true);
if (!attributes.Any())
throw new InvalidOperationException("The IMvxView has no region attribute.");
return ((RegionAttribute)attributes.First()).Name;
}
}
Hope this helps.
As the link to the blog of #Stephanvs is no longer active I was able to pull the content off the Web Archive, i'll post it here for who ever is looking for it:
Implementing a Multi Region Presenter for Windows 10 UWP and MvvmCross
18 October 2015 on MvvmCross, Xamarin, UWP, Windows 10, Presenter > Universal Windows Platform
I'm upgrading a Windows Store app to the new Windows 10 Universal
Windows Platform. MvvmCross has added support for UWP in v4.0-beta2.
A new control in the UWP is the SplitView control. Basically it
functions as a container view which consist of two sub views, shown
side-by-side. Mostly it's used to implement the (in)famous hamburger
menu.
By default MvvmCross doesn't know how to deal with the SplitView, and
just replaces the entire screen contents with a new View when
navigating between ViewModels. If however we want to lay-out our views
differently and show multiple views within one window, we need a
different solution. Luckily we can plug-in a custom presenter, which
will take care of handling the lay-out per platform.
Registering the MultiRegionPresenter
In the Setup.cs file in your UWP project, you can override the
CreateViewPresenter method with the following implementation.
protected override IMvxWindowsViewPresenter CreateViewPresenter(IMvxWindowsFrame rootFrame)
{
return new MvxWindowsMultiRegionViewPresenter(rootFrame);
}
Using Regions
We can define a region by declaring a
element. At this point it has to be a Frame type because then we can
also show a nice transition animation when switching views.
<mvx:MvxWindowsPage ...>
<Grid>
<!-- ... -->
<SplitView>
<SplitView.Pane>
<!-- Menu Content as ListView or something similar -->
</SplitView.Pane>
<SplitView.Content>
<Frame x:Name="MainContent" />
</SplitView.Content>
</SplitView>
</Grid>
</mvx:MvxWindowsPage>
Now we want to be able when a ShowViewModel(...) occurs to swap out
the current view presented in the MainContent frame.
Showing Views in a Region
In the code-behind for a View we can now declare a MvxRegionAttribute,
defining in which region we want this View to be rendered. This name
has to match a Frame element in the view.
[MvxRegion("MainContent")]
public partial class PersonView
{
// ...
}
It's also possible to declare multiple regions within the same view.
This would allow you to split up your UI in more re-usable pieces.
Animating the Transition between Content Views
If you want a nice animation when transitioning between views in the
Frame, you can add the following snippet to the Frame declaration.
<Frame x:Name="MainContent">
<Frame.ContentTransitions>
<TransitionCollection>
<NavigationThemeTransition>
<NavigationThemeTransition.DefaultNavigationTransitionInfo>
<EntranceNavigationTransitionInfo />
</NavigationThemeTransition.DefaultNavigationTransitionInfo>
</NavigationThemeTransition>
</TransitionCollection>
</Frame.ContentTransitions>
</Frame>
The contents will now be nicely animated when navigating.
Hope this helps, Stephanvs
I am using Prism 2, trying to add four navigation buttons (First Record, Last Record, Previous Record, Next Record) in shell to be used by modules. I also want these buttons to be disable if active View/ViewModel does not provide these functions.
I tried using events but didn't know how to achieve my second goal regarding disabling buttons. It seems I need to check current active View/ViewModel to see if they subscribed the click event during View switch. But I think publisher should be unaware of subscriber...
Somehow I tried my own way. I create an IDocNavigation interface which has four method corresponding to my four buttons. At runtime I check modules' ViewModel if they implemented that interface or not, and change the ICommand on fly. Below is my code. I include one LastRecordCommand only:
public ShellViewModel(Views.Shell shell)
{
this.Shell = shell;
shell.DataContext = this;
shell.MainDocking.ActivePaneChanged += (s, e) =>
{
if (e.NewPane.Content is UserControl &&
((UserControl)e.NewPane.Content).DataContext is IDocumentNavigate)
{
IDocumentNavigate vm = ((UserControl)e.NewPane.Content).DataContext as IDocumentNavigate;
LastRecordCommand = new RelayCommand(x => vm.GotoLastRecord(), x => true);
}
else
{
LastRecordCommand = new RelayCommand(x => { }, x => false);
}
};
//...
I feel these are quite ugly. Creating an empty RelayCommand is also stupid. How can I improve ? or how can I achieve disabling command if event is more suitable in my case ?
You can make use of CompositeCommand in prism.
Define a globally available CompositeCommand
public static readonly CompositeCommand FirstRecord= new CompositeCommand(true);
Then in your your module view models
class Module1
{
public DelegateCommand Module1Firstrecord{ get; set; }
Module1()
{
Module1Firstrecord = new DelegateCommand(this.FirstRecord, CanExecute);
}
private void FirstRecord()
{
//do whatever you want
}
private bool CanExecute()
{
return true;
}
private void Module1_IsActiveChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Find if your window is acive
// if it is active Module1Firstrecord.IsActive = true
//else false.
}
}
With IActiveAware you can handle the active window scenario easily. According to whether your active module have a handler for the command on not the buttons will enable/disable.
I'm just switching a project across to mvvmlight and trying to do things "the right way"
I've got a simple app with a listbox
When an item is selected in the listbox, then I've hooked up a RelayCommand
This RelayCommand causes a call on an INavigationService (http://geekswithblogs.net/lbugnion/archive/2011/01/06/navigation-in-a-wp7-application-with-mvvm-light.aspx) which navigates to a url like "/DetailPage.xaml?DetailId=12"
The DetailPage.xaml is then loaded and ... this is where I'm a bit unsure...
how should the DetailPage get hooked up to a DetailView with DetailId of 12?
should I do this in Xaml somehow using a property on the ViewLocator?
should I do this in the NavigatedTo method?
Please feel free to point me to a full sample - sure this has been done a (hundred) thousand times before, but all the blogs and tutorials seem to be skipping this last trivial detail (focussing instead on the messaging and on the ioc on on the navigationservice)
Thanks!
The only place you can retrieve the URL parameter is in the view. So since your view is likely depending on it, you should fetch it in the OnNavigatedTo method.
Then, you should pass it along to your viewmodel, either using messaging (to expensive if you ask me), or by referring to your datacontext (which is the viewmodel I presume), and execeuting a method on that.
private AddTilePageViewModel ViewModel
{
get
{
return DataContext as AddTilePageViewModel;
}
}
protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
{
var postalCode = NavigationContext.TryGetKey("PostalCode");
var country = NavigationContext.TryGetStringKey("Country");
if (postalCode.HasValue && string.IsNullOrEmpty(country) == false)
{
ViewModel.LoadCity(postalCode.Value, country);
}
base.OnNavigatedTo(e);
}
I'm using some special extensions for the NavigationContext to make it easier.
namespace System.Windows.Navigation
{
public static class NavigationExtensions
{
public static int? TryGetKey(this NavigationContext source, string key)
{
if (source.QueryString.ContainsKey(key))
{
string value = source.QueryString[key];
int result = 0;
if (int.TryParse(value, out result))
{
return result;
}
}
return null;
}
public static string TryGetStringKey(this NavigationContext source, string key)
{
if (source.QueryString.ContainsKey(key))
{
return source.QueryString[key];
}
return null;
}
}
}
Create a new WindowsPhoneDataBound application, it has an example of how to handle navigation between views. Basically you handle the navigation part in your view, then set the view's DataContext accord to the query string. I think it plays nicely with the MVVM pattern since your ViewModels don't have to know anything about navigation (which IMO should be handled at the UI level).
Im getting crazy about this issue. I implemented a ListView which you can add/remove TextField dinamically, but only the last TextField is removed.
An example:
// Object type which is used in the list
public class ExampleObject implements Serializable{
private String keyword;
public String getKeyword() {
return this.keyword;
}
public void setKeyword(String s) {
keyword = s;
}
}
//ListView
List<ExampleObject> keywordList = new ArrayList<ExampleObject>();
keywordList.add(new ExampleObject());
ListView keywordView = new ListView("keywordView", keywordList) {
#Override
protected void populateItem(final ListItem item) {
ExampleObject model = (ExampleObject) item.getModelObject();
item.add(new TextField("subKeyword", new PropertyModel(model, "keyword")));
// keyword remove link
AjaxSubmitLink removeKeyword = new AjaxSubmitLink("removeKeyword", myForm)
{
#Override
protected void onSubmit(AjaxRequestTarget target, Form<?> form) {
ExampleObject selected = (ExampleObject) item.getModelObject();
// I also tried deleting by index. println shows the
// selected object is the element I want to remove, so why always
// remove last object of the list?
keywordList.remove(selected);
if (target != null) {
target.addComponent(myForm);
}
}
};
item.add(removeKeyword);
// keyword add link
AjaxSubmitLink addKeyword = new AjaxSubmitLink("addKeyword", metadataForm)
{
#Override
protected void onSubmit(AjaxRequestTarget target, Form<?> form) {
keywordList.add(new ExampleObject());
if (target != null) {
target.addComponent(myForm);
}
}
};
item.add(addKeyword);
}
keywordView.setReuseItems(true);
metadataForm.add(keywordView);
Any help would be very appreciate, because I thing this issue is really a very stupid mistake but I cant get it!
Thanks
It might be as simple as getting rid of the line
keywordView.setReuseItems(true);
The reuseItems flag is an efficiency so that the page does not rebuild the ListView items unnecessarily, but it can lead to confusion such as what you're seeing.
ListView really wasn't made for use with forms though, and you'll probably be better off with another tactic entirely.
This blog entry on building a list editor form component might be useful. It will need some changes if you're not on Wicket 1.4, but similar stuff is definitely possible in Wicket 1.3, and the comments have some hints.
Read the javadoc of ListView#setReuseItems():
"But if you modify the listView model object, than you must manually call listView.removeAll() in order to rebuild the ListItems."
You can not use a ListView this way. Either use the members of ListView provided:
removeLink(java.lang.String id, ListItem<T> item)
and
newItem(int index)
but, I never used those. If I have to display a List and be able to add remove Items dynamically, I prefer the RefreshingView.
If you do use FormComponents inside a RefreshingView, make sure you set a Reusestartegy (setItemReuseStrategy())
Bert