I am trying to make a tabs like view with plain xamarin forms because I don't want to use any third party plugin. For that I used two frames like below and changed its state as "Selected" & "Unselected" when tapped on that frame to make it look like that.
Style for frame:
<Style TargetType="Frame">
<Setter Property="VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups">
<VisualStateGroupList>
<VisualStateGroup>
<VisualState x:Name="Selected">
<VisualState.Setters>
<Setter Property="BackgroundColor" Value="Orange" />
</VisualState.Setters>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="UnSelected">
<VisualState.Setters>
<Setter Property="BackgroundColor" Value="White" />
</VisualState.Setters>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateGroupList>
</Setter>
</Style>
My Frame:
<Frame x:Name="AllNewsTab" Padding="10,5,10,5" CornerRadius="3" HasShadow="False" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand">
<Label Text="All" FontFamily="{StaticResource BoldFont}" TextColor="{StaticResource BodyTextColor}" FontSize="Medium" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HorizontalOptions="Center"/>
<Frame.GestureRecognizers>
<TapGestureRecognizer NumberOfTapsRequired="1" Tapped="Tab_Tapped"/>
</Frame.GestureRecognizers>
</Frame>
Tapped Event:
private void Tab_Tapped(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (frameSelected != null)
VisualStateManager.GoToState(frameSelected, "UnSelected");
VisualStateManager.GoToState((Frame)sender, "Selected");
frameSelected = (Frame)sender;
}
But I want one frame to look selected when the page appears for the first time. So I tried to do like this in the pages OnAppearing Method. But it doesn't work. What is the problem here?
protected override void OnAppearing()
{
VisualStateManager.GoToState(AllNewsTab, "Selected");
base.OnAppearing();
}
Try this, In xamarin, VisualElement have 4 states such as Normal, Disabled, Focused, Selected. And we can define our own VisualElements.
MainPage.Xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
xmlns:d="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms/design"
xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
mc:Ignorable="d"
x:Class="Xam_VS_Test.Views.MainPage">
<ContentPage.Resources>
<Style TargetType="Frame">
<Setter Property="VisualStateManager.VisualStateGroups">
<VisualStateGroupList>
<VisualStateGroup Name="SelectionStates">
<VisualState x:Name="Selected">
<VisualState.Setters>
<Setter Property="BackgroundColor" Value="Orange" />
</VisualState.Setters>
</VisualState>
<VisualState x:Name="UnSelected">
<VisualState.Setters>
<Setter Property="BackgroundColor" Value="White" />
</VisualState.Setters>
</VisualState>
</VisualStateGroup>
</VisualStateGroupList>
</Setter>
</Style>
</ContentPage.Resources>
<ContentPage.Content>
<StackLayout Orientation="Vertical" >
<Frame x:Name="AllNewsTab" Padding="10,5,10,5" HeightRequest="20" WidthRequest="50" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" CornerRadius="3" HasShadow="False" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand">
<Label Text="All" FontSize="Large" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HorizontalOptions="Center"/>
<Frame.GestureRecognizers>
<TapGestureRecognizer NumberOfTapsRequired="1" Tapped="Tab_Tapped"/>
</Frame.GestureRecognizers>
</Frame>
<Frame x:Name="AllNewsTab2" Padding="10,5,10,5" HeightRequest="20" WidthRequest="50" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" CornerRadius="3" HasShadow="False" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand">
<Label Text="1" FontSize="Large" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HorizontalOptions="Center"/>
<Frame.GestureRecognizers>
<TapGestureRecognizer NumberOfTapsRequired="1" Tapped="Tab_Tapped"/>
</Frame.GestureRecognizers>
</Frame>
<Frame x:Name="AllNewsTab3" Padding="10,5,10,5" HeightRequest="20" WidthRequest="50" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" CornerRadius="3" HasShadow="False" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand">
<Label Text="2" FontSize="Large" HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" VerticalTextAlignment="Center" HorizontalOptions="Center"/>
<Frame.GestureRecognizers>
<TapGestureRecognizer NumberOfTapsRequired="1" Tapped="Tab_Tapped"/>
</Frame.GestureRecognizers>
</Frame>
</StackLayout>
</ContentPage.Content>
</ContentPage>
MainPage.cs
public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
{
Frame frameSelected;
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
protected override void OnAppearing()
{
if (frameSelected == null)
{
VisualStateManager.GoToState(AllNewsTab, "Selected");
frameSelected = AllNewsTab;
}
base.OnAppearing();
}
private void Tab_Tapped(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (frameSelected != null)
VisualStateManager.GoToState(frameSelected, "UnSelected");
VisualStateManager.GoToState((Frame)sender, "Selected");
frameSelected = (Frame)sender;
}
}