[forms-devel] Opening up custom renderers for extension

[Michael Ridland]

Hi

So I'm wondering what's the plan for opening up custom renderers for
extension, I'm trying to solve a (would be) simple issue in my app but the
closed nature of the renderers can continually become a issue.

Today I wanted to override the BoxRenderer and implement my own draw
method, but it contained two private fields which stopped me for
implementing my simple requirement. I know you don't want to worry about
backwards compatibility of renderers, I (like most forms developers) don't
feel you should have to either, when we're extending your custom renderers
we assume that it's now our responsibility for maintenance for our custom
code. I don't feel there's a reason not to have more protected fields and
protected virtual methods and there's a great reason why we should have
them.

I would gladly do the work if it was approved.

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*Michael Ridland | Technical Director | Xamarin MVP*

XAM Consulting - Mobile Technology Specialists

www.xam-consulting.com

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