Is it possible to change the colour of the line below / Border of a TextBox (Entry)

Question

I am creating a Xamarin.Forms application on Android and I am trying to change the colour of the line below my Xamarin.Forms Entry control.

I have an Entry control like so:

<Entry Text="new cool street"/>

I would like to change the colour of the line below this Entry from the default white to more of a purple to match my theme.

Idealy it would be better to do using Android Styles as it would apply to all controls inheriting from Entry if possible

Is this possible to do?

Answer 1

you can use custom renderer that will affect all entries,

here's for android:

[assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(Entry), typeof(MyEntryRenderer))]
namespace Android.MyRenderers
{
    public class MyEntryRenderer : EntryRenderer
    {
        protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<Entry> e)
        {
            base.OnElementChanged(e);

            if (Control == null || e.NewElement == null) return;

            if (Build.VERSION.SdkInt >= BuildVersionCodes.Lollipop)
                Control.BackgroundTintList = ColorStateList.ValueOf(Color.White);
            else
                Control.Background.SetColorFilter(Color.White, PorterDuff.Mode.SrcAtop);
         }    
    }
}

and iOS:

[assembly: ExportRenderer (typeof(Entry), typeof(MyEntryRenderer))]
namespace iOS.MyRenderers
{
    public class MyEntryRenderer : EntryRenderer
    {
        private CALayer _line;

        protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<Entry> e)
        {
            base.OnElementChanged (e);
            _line = null;

            if (Control == null || e.NewElement == null)
                return;

            Control.BorderStyle = UITextBorderStyle.None;

            _line = new CALayer {
                BorderColor = UIColor.FromRGB(174, 174, 174).CGColor,
                BackgroundColor = UIColor.FromRGB(174, 174, 174).CGColor,
                Frame = new CGRect (0, Frame.Height / 2, Frame.Width * 2, 1f)
            };

            Control.Layer.AddSublayer (_line);
        }
    }
}

not sure about Windows solution on this