[forms-devel] Repeater Control

[Adam Pedley]

Thanks Michael. I knew there would be similar controls at a native level, I
was wondering if there was an XF control in the library that I missed but
apparently not.

I hadn't tested the Grid approach with large data, I imagine there would be
quite a few scenario's I would need to.

The RepeaterView control (working draft name) would be not implementing it
via the ListView because the reason I steer clear of it is when I want
repeating items but no scrolling attached. Hence you could put this control
in a ScrollView, unlike the ListView.

If the XF team give the go ahead, it would be great to work on this
together.



On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Michael Ridland <rid00z at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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