Discussion on "Rotating a list in Xamarin.Forms using CollectionView"

Dave Murray · 2021-10-24T23:10:13.029Z

One of the advantages of using a CollectionView rather than a ListView is the ability to change the layout and orientation of the items in the collection. In this article I look at how we can use this feature to improve the look of our Xamarin.Forms ...

Why not using trigger to switch the layouts?

Hi Robin, I wanted the simplest way to change the layout & orientation and for me that was data binding so I didn't consider triggers. Triggers might give better performance, although I haven't had any problems using bindings, but think the best solution likely involves Visual State Manager.

Perhaps I'll revisit the article in future and demonstrate using triggers and VSM instead.

Did you test this on iOS? I do something similar, where I change the width of the items in the list depending on the view width so there are a certain nr of items horizontally that nicely fill the screen. But when rescaling the items size-wise iOS doesn't get it. I need to scroll up and down (to refresh the items) for it to show the new sizes. Any ideas?

Hi I find it easier to prototype with Android and I've not tested this technique on iOS yet. What ItemSizingStrategy are you using?

Discussion

Rotating a list in Xamarin.Forms using CollectionView

Responses(2)

Recent in Forum

Search Hashnode

Rotating a list in Xamarin.Forms using CollectionView

Responses(2)

Recent in Forum