[Question] ItemSource - simple example

[SorinMiron]

I want to render only the tabview, without the content from above. I tried and i figured out that TabItem shoud have content otherwise the app will crash.

I added from xaml some labels with following properties:

<tabview:TabItem HeaderText="Date 5" >
                        <Label HeightRequest="0" WidthRequest="0"></Label>
                    </tabview:TabItem>

All is working fine till now.

I'm trying to do the same thing dynamically from code. Here is the example:

<tabview:TabViewControl
                HeaderBackgroundColor="SkyBlue"
                HeaderSelectionUnderlineColor="White"
                HeaderTabTextColor="White"
                HeaderTabTextFontAttributes="Bold"
                HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
                IsSwipeEnabled="True"
                TabHeaderSpacing="100"
                VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"
                ContentHeight="100"
                ItemSource="{Binding TabItems}"
               >

I added TabItems to Item Source.

I declared the variables into view model ( the binding is made to viewmodel)

 private ObservableCollection<TabItem> _tabItems;
        public ObservableCollection<TabItem> TabItems
        {
            get
            {
                return _tabItems;
            }
            set
            {
                _tabItems = value;
                OnPropertyChanged("TabItems");
            }
        }

And this is a method called on init

private void AddTabItemsByDate()
        {
            ObservableCollection<TabItem> tabs = new ObservableCollection<TabItem>();
            Label emptyLabel = new Label()
            {
                Text = "",
                WidthRequest = 0,
                HeightRequest = 0
            };
            tabs.Add(new TabItem("test1", emptyLabel));
            tabs.Add(new TabItem("test2", emptyLabel));
            tabs.Add(new TabItem("test3", emptyLabel));
            tabs.Add(new TabItem("test4", emptyLabel));

            TabItems = tabs;
        }

In the UI, i didn't see anything. The TabViewControl is empty, no tabs, no content, nothing.

I'm new at working with Xamarin. I'm wrong regarding the implementation? Should I use the template sample to do that? I didn't need the content from above, only the tabs.

Thanks.