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If you like what you see, don’t forget to follow me on twitter check out my GitHub, and subscribe to my blog to learn more mobile developer tips and tricks! – Two way binding triggers to show / hide the inner viewsĪnd once again, we get a nice little effect like this! – SelectedMessage toggles the ViewModel properties When the SelectedMessage we bound is changed, and not null, we toggle the ShowSenderName and the IsSentDateVisible to show/hide those views. Message.IsSentDateVisible = !message.IsSentDateVisible Message.ShowSenderName = !message.ShowSenderName Private void ToggleDetails(ChatMessageViewModel message) / Toggles the details of the given message. Public ChatMessageViewModel SelectedMessage Now lastly, let’s look at what’s going on in the ViewModel behind the ListView and how we are binding the SelectedItem. If you want to read more about that, check out this doc from Xamarin: We use the DataTemplateSelector to choose between the sent bubble and the received bubble, but that isn’t important.
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Now in order to update this, we need to bind our SelectedItem in our ListView. The important pieces to note are the IsVisible="" to show the date label or not. I even have some long press handlers from my LongPressedEffect that you can read about here: Xamarin.Tip – Xamarin.Forms Long Press Effect There is a lot going on in this cell (it’s a chat page after all, so it’s a feature rich cell). Here’s the XAML for the ViewCell shown in the gif above: This means that if we bind an update to show / hide certain controls on tap, those will show first, then we remeasure to make sure they fit. However, it’s important to note that this is so easy because of the order – calling the base.OnTapped() first allows for your click / select events to fire off before measuring the size. Override OnTapped and call ForceUpdateSize(). One good part is that it comes pre-packaged with Visual Studio 2019's latest builds and included as a default Nuget package when a new Xamarin forms solution is created. Public class ExpandingViewCell : ViewCell Xamarin Essential is a package that contains abstractions for platform-specific features such as an accelerometer, barometer, ColorConverter, compass, connectivity and many more. Let’s first create a new class called ExpandingViewCell: Force the ViewCell to remeasure its size to show the hidden bits. Handle updating that visibility on selection or tapģ. Bind visibility to the hidden parts of your cellĢ. There are 3 major parts to making a feature like this work:ġ. Here’s another helpful Xamarin tip to allow you to expand your ViewCells – for example when the user taps a ViewCell, expand it to reveal more information. Meadow.Tip – Playing Jingle Bells with a Piezo Speaker Using C#.Xamarin.Tip – Fixing Missing iOS App Icons.Xamarin.Tip – iOS Push Notification Device Token Extraction in iOS 13+.Public static Color AlmostSilver = Color. so define your color resources in a class: User1004 Xamarin.Forms does not support merged resource dictionaries at this point, but again, you can use x:Static allows you to reference any static field, property, or enum value from any class. Is there anyway to actually use a resource defined in XAML?
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I've tried lower case, binding, and any other crazy thing I can think of - it just doesn't work. The second label just silently fails, no error message kicked. Is there anyway to use a resource in XAML the way you would use it in other versions in XAML as a StaticResource?
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