XfxPicker

[ChaseFlorell]

Feature Request:

Create a Picker control that mimics the existing Xamarin.Forms.Picker but also includes a floating label and error messaging.

An added bonus would be to use the forthcoming bindable picker.

[SkyeHoefling]

I can pick this up. I am starting to extend this library for a project I am working on and I need a matching picker. I'll submit a pull request when I have it completed.

[ChaseFlorell]

@ahoefling I have a bunch of this done already because I needed it in an internal project. I haven't had a chance to refine it yet though, so I'd be happy to hand over what I have to get you started.

[SkyeHoefling]

If you could hand over some code to me that would be awesome! Could you put it in a branch and I can fork it and see what it is doing. The major problem I was running into is extending the Xamarin.Forms base picker functionality while injecting the new types. I was looking to do some type of hybrid combination of our XfxEntryRenderer and the Xamarin.Forms PickerRenderer.

Very interested to see how you started this.

As a side note, I have accomplished this using pure xaml in Xamarin.Forms but this is a much more performant approach. I am a pretty big fan of this repository and the hard work you have put in

[ChaseFlorell]

Well I brought all my old stuff in and got it compiling. I didn't even bother spinning it up in a sim to see what it looks like. Feel free to mess with it and submit a PR

https://github.com/XamFormsExtended/Xfx.Controls/tree/issue-%233

[SkyeHoefling]

I just copied some of the code into my project and it worked without issue. I can dig through it and extract a PR that just adds the MVP.

Out of curiosity do you remember the known issues with this code?

[ChaseFlorell]

There was no known issue per-se, but it didn't implement the the added features like setting the active color and disabling the error text all together. I threw it in hastily before pushing, but it's fully untested. Also IIRC, the "selection" behavior on iOS doesn't behave the same as the default Picker and I think that was a business rule when I built it. I think the Picker selects when you scroll to an item and this one selects after you click "done"... or something like that. Honestly it's about a half a year old so my memory is foggy.

[ChaseFlorell]

so as for the selection behavior... what is the iOS default in that scenario? I always hated that as you scrolled to a picker item, as soon as you stop it'd select it; is that how iOS is supposed to behave?

I'll take whatever is standard, and if there's no standard, do you think we should stick to the Picker behavior, or deviate?

[SkyeHoefling]

This actually works pretty well on both iOS and Android, I was pleasantly surprised and it helps out a lot on a project I am working on. I am going to start working on a fork and cleaning this up so we can merge it in to master.

[ChaseFlorell]

this sounds really good. Once your PR is in, I should be able to pull together a new Nuget Package release fairly quickly. The latest develop branch also contains new support for handling INotifyDataErrorInfo, so you can set validation really easily on your Controls. I think I need to put together a blog post about it.