I have a pretty large form (adapted mainly for tablets), that has a TabbedPage
nesting a ScrollView
and a vertical StackPanel
containing many controls.
I have few occurrences where I have a ListView
that contains a few single-line items, and I need it to size to content.
I'd like to get rid of its scroll-bars, but anyway I don't want it to take up more space than what's required for its items.
Is there a way (even an ugly one) to achieve that without have to write a renderer x3 platforms?
Here's a pseudo describing my tree:
<ContentPage>
<MasterDetailPage>
<MasterDetailPage.Detail>
<TabbedPage>
<ContentPage>
<ScrollView>
<StackPanel>
<!-- many controls-->
<ListView>
When rendered, there is a huge gap coming after the ListView
. How can I avoid that?
I tried messing around with the VerticalOptions
and HeightRequest
, non of which worked.
I'm looking for a dynamic way (preferably without inheritance) to achieve that without involving custom renderers.
Based on Lutaaya's answer, I made a behavior that automates this, determining and setting the row-height (Gist).
namespace Xamarin.Forms
{
using System;
using System.Linq;
public class AutoSizeBehavior : Behavior<ListView>
{
ListView _ListView;
ITemplatedItemsView<Cell> Cells => _ListView;
protected override void OnAttachedTo(ListView bindable)
{
bindable.ItemAppearing += AppearanceChanged;
bindable.ItemDisappearing += AppearanceChanged;
_ListView = bindable;
}
protected override void OnDetachingFrom(ListView bindable)
{
bindable.ItemAppearing -= AppearanceChanged;
bindable.ItemDisappearing -= AppearanceChanged;
_ListView = null;
}
void AppearanceChanged(object sender, ItemVisibilityEventArgs e) =>
UpdateHeight(e.Item);
void UpdateHeight(object item)
{
if (_ListView.HasUnevenRows)
{
double height;
if ((height = _ListView.HeightRequest) ==
(double)VisualElement.HeightRequestProperty.DefaultValue)
height = 0;
height += MeasureRowHeight(item);
SetHeight(height);
}
else if (_ListView.RowHeight == (int)ListView.RowHeightProperty.DefaultValue)
{
var height = MeasureRowHeight(item);
_ListView.RowHeight = height;
SetHeight(height);
}
}
int MeasureRowHeight(object item)
{
var template = _ListView.ItemTemplate;
var cell = (Cell)template.CreateContent();
cell.BindingContext = item;
var height = cell.RenderHeight;
var mod = height % 1;
if (mod > 0)
height = height - mod + 1;
return (int)height;
}
void SetHeight(double height)
{
//TODO if header or footer is string etc.
if (_ListView.Header is VisualElement header)
height += header.Height;
if (_ListView.Footer is VisualElement footer)
height += footer.Height;
_ListView.HeightRequest = height;
}
}
}
<ContentPage xmlns:xf="clr-namespace:Xamarin.Forms">
<ListView>
<ListView.Behaviors>
<xf:AutoSizeBehavior />