[forms-devel] forms-devel Digest, Vol 4, Issue 2

[Adam Pedley]

Since Checkboxes are natively a part of Android and UWP, I think it could
be good to expose them. iOS would probably need a toggle with a different
image, or a button with a different selected state as I don't know of a
native checkbox.

Rina, while checkboxes can be good the specific scenario you mention for
their use, such as a multiple select of items in a list is normally
discouraged due to UX issues such as if you are selecting the item or
ticking the checkbox. For this reason Google Material Design Guidelines
specifically discourages them and I think other guideline do as well.

Might I suggest when you select an item in the ListView or list of some
kind you show a tick next to the item, or highlight the row in the list.
This approach tends to go over better in a mobile UI and doesn't confuse
selecting the list row, vs a control in the list.

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> Hello,
> I'd like to add a CheckBox for allowing the user can select multiple
> options in the list.
> And a CheckBox is a specific control that has two states which are
> 'checked' and 'unchecked'.
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> This CheckBox will have the following properties.
> - FontAttributes : A value that indicate whether the font of the checkbox
> is bold, italic or neither.
> - FontFamily : A value that indicate font family to which the font for
> checkbox text belongs.
> - FontSize : A value that indicate font size of checkbox.
> - IsChecked : A value that indicate whether this checkbox is checked or
> not.
> - Text : A text displayed as the content of the checkbox.
> - TextColor : A value that indicate the color for the text of checkbox.
>
> Also, this CheckBox will have an event.
> - Checked : This event occurs when checkbox is checked.
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> Just like other controls, the CheckBox is a very common control.
> Xamarin will be able to provide richer function in many application, if
> this control is added on xamarin.
> I will look forward to hearing your opinion.
> Thank you.
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> Best regard,
>
> Rina You
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