Question: What are the plans to support Xamarin.Forms Material Visual within the Syncfusion controls?

[Robert Mims]

Xamarin.Forms Material Visual is released in 3.6+, in order to retain continuity in user experience and presentation within a solution leveraging standard Xamarin Forms controls and custom Syncfusion controls the themes or visual experience should be reconciled.

Presently that would affect custom implementations of:

• Button
• Entry
• Frame
• ProgressBar
• DatePicker
• TimePicker
• Picker
• ActivityIndicator
• Editor
• Slider
• Stepper

What are the plans to support Xamarin.Forms Material Visual within the Syncfusion controls?

Thank you.

Robert

[Bharathiraja K]

Hi Robert, 

 

Thanks for your interest in Syncfusion products. Yes. We are planning to provide consistent appearance across iOS and Android for all controls that is compatible with material design. We will begin this work in our next release.  

 

Disclaimer: The date for the feature implementation is tentative and not a commitment on our parts. 

 

Regards, 

Bharathi. 

[Supreet Tare]

Hi Bharathi, 

Do we have any updates on this?

Regards

ST

[Rachel A]

Hi Supreet, 

 

We are planning to implement material design for applicable controls in our Volume 3 release. As of now, all our editor controls like numeric textbox, masked edit, autocomplete, combo box, data form will be rendered in material design when it is placed inside text input layout control.  

 

Thanks, 

Rachel. 

[Andrew Beeman]

"when it is placed inside text input layout control."

How do I do that? I wanted my AutoComplete's to match my entry inputs

[Sakthivel Palaniyappan]

Hi Andrew,

Greetings from Syncfusion.

We have analyzed your query and we can use AutoComplete control inside SfTextInputLayout as like below code snippet.

XAML: 

<StackLayout  

        VerticalOptions="Start"  

        HorizontalOptions="Start" 

        Padding="30"> 

        <inputLayout:SfTextInputLayout ContainerType="Outlined" 

   Hint="SelectCountry"> 

            <autocomplete:SfAutoComplete x:Name="autoComplete" > 

                <autocomplete:SfAutoComplete.AutoCompleteSource> 

                    <ListCollection:List x:TypeArguments="x:String">                        

                        <x:String>Canadax:String> 

                        … 

                        <x:String>Angolax:String> 

                    ListCollection:List> 

                autocomplete:SfAutoComplete.AutoCompleteSource> 

            autocomplete:SfAutoComplete> 

        inputLayout:SfTextInputLayout> 

 

        <inputLayout:SfTextInputLayout Hint="Entry" ContainerType="Outlined"> 

            <Entry Text="Label"/> 

        inputLayout:SfTextInputLayout> 

 

    StackLayout> 

We have created sample based on this and please find the sample from below.

Sample:
https://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/directtrac/general/ze/AutocompleteSample809489714.zip

Please let us know if you have any other queries.

Regards,
Sakthivel P. 

[Christian Campos]

With the lastest SF Xamarin Forms controls, the Material Visual is broken, the TextInputLayouts are broken, the controls inside of Expanders don't renderize correctly (sometimes), etc.

If I set Visual="Default", the app works fine.

Using a couple of previous versions of SF, Material features are working fine.

[Sakthivel Palaniyappan]

Hi Christian,

Greetings from Syncfusion.

We have analyzed your requirement and added SfTextInputLayout as the content of SfExpander and set Visual as Material to work fine at our end. Please have a sample of the link below

Sample:
https://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/forum/144641/ze/ExpanderXamarin454549350

So, could you please check the issue with the attached sample and let us know whether it is reproduced or not?

Can you please provide detailed information on the reported query? 

·       Can you please share the issue reproducing platform and stack trace? 

·       If the issue is not reproduced in the above sample, please revert us by modifying the sample based on your application along with the replication procedure. 

·       Can you provide the overall page structure used in your project? 

·       Can you share the Xamarin.Forms, Syncfusion versions, and device configuration details? 

It will help us to provide better solution at the earliest.

Regards,
Sakthivel P.