[forms-devel] Repeater Control

Michael Ridland rid00z at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 02:20:28 UTC 2016


FYI, doing that type of implementation inside a grid is going to be slow.
You better off using a listview and spliting multiple controls across a
single cell, will be much faster if you do it correctly. Can also look
Daniel's flowlistview
<https://github.com/daniel-luberda/DLToolkit.Forms.Controls/tree/master/FlowListView>,
but it's fairly easy to roll your own. See attached, this would die if you
used a grid.

Thanks

*Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP*

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On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Michael Ridland <rid00z at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> You're talking about a control similar to a UICollectionView on iOS?
>
> If so, this is a hard task to do nicely, as you'll need to leverage the
> correct controls on the underlying native platforms controls like
> UICollectionView and it's also a must have that you use cell recycling.
> It's most definately a control that should be part of the Xamarin.Forms
> Platform, I'd hope that it would be scheduled for development already if
> not already started.
>
> If the XF team give the go ahead for you to work on it, I would happily
> help with the implementation.
>
> Actually, would it even be an idea to have this control as a separate
> nuget like the CarouselView?
>
> Thanks
>
> *Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP*
>
> XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists
>
> www.xam-consulting.com
>
> Blog: www.michaelridland.com
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Adam Pedley <adam.pedley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Please let me know if I missed something but a control I keep creating
>> for each project is a repeater control and plenty of people in the
>> community keep asking for it. It seems like a gap in controls in Xamarin
>> Forms.
>>
>> I normally base this off a Grid, add an ItemsSource, DataTemplate, Rows
>> and Columns, then it creates the grid and adds the items as necessary to
>> the format of the DataTemplate.
>>
>> Is this something that Xamarin would look at accepting if I created this
>> control for a PR. I assume this one might go through evo.
>>
>> Or is there a standard where all XF controls need a native counterpart?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Adam
>>
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