Sharpnado.Shadows

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Supported platforms
✔️ Android
✔️ iOS
✔️ UWP
✔️ Tizen

Initialization

On iOS add this line after Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init() and before LoadApplication(new App()).

Sharpnado.Shades.iOS.iOSShadowsRenderer.Initialize();

On Tizen add this line after Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init() and before LoadApplication(new App()).

Sharpnado.Shades.Tizen.TizenShadowsRenderer.Initialize();

Presentation

Add as many custom shadows as you like to any Xamarin.Forms view (Android, iOS, UWP, Tizen).

You can specify each shadow Color, Opacity, BlurRadius, and Offset
Simply implement Neumorphism
You can add one shadow, 3 shadows, 99 shadows, to any Xamarin.Forms element
Animate any of these property and make the shadows dance around your elements
No AndroidX or SkiaSharp dependency required (except Tizen), only Xamarin.Forms

Using Shadows

Shadows is a container for any Xamarin.Forms view. Just wrap your view in it and start adding shadows:

XAML

<sh:Shadows x:Name="CatShadows"
            CornerRadius="10">
    <sh:Shadows.Shades>
        <sh:ImmutableShades>
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="10"
                      Opacity="0.5"
                      Offset="-10,-10"
                      Color="#FE99FE" />
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="10"
                      Opacity="0.5"
                      Offset="10,10"
                      Color="#00B0FB" />
        </sh:ImmutableShades>
    </sh:Shadows.Shades>
    <Frame WidthRequest="80"
           Padding="10"
           HorizontalOptions="Center"
           VerticalOptions="Center"
           BackgroundColor="White"
           CornerRadius="10">
        <Image Source="{images:ImageResource nyan_cat.png}" />
    </Frame>
</sh:Shadows>

OUTPUT

Thanks to the CornerRadius property you can match your target corner to achieve a perfect shadow. For example, you can add a shadow to a rounded button:

XAML

<sh:Shadows CornerRadius="30"
            Shades="{sh:SingleShade Offset='0, 10',
                                    Opacity=0.7,
                                    Color=Violet}">
    <ImageButton WidthRequest="60"
                 HeightRequest="60"
                 Padding="20"
                 HorizontalOptions="Center"
                 VerticalOptions="Center"
                 BackgroundColor="Violet"
                 CornerRadius="30"
                 Source="{StaticResource IconPlusWhite}" />
</sh:Shadows>

OUTPUT

Shades

The Shadows component has only 2 properties:

int CornerRadius which should be equal to the component's child view CornerRadius to achieve a good shadow effect,
IEnumerable<Shade> Shades which is the enumeration of all the shades this shadow is made of.

A shade is what you could call a "sub-shadow".

Each shade has 4 properties:

Point Offset: the offset of the shade
Color Color: the color of the shade
double Opacity: the opacity of the shade
double BlurRadius: the amount of blur your want for this shade

Logo.xaml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<sh:Shadows x:Class="ShadowsSample.Views.Logo"
            xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
            xmlns:sh="http://sharpnado.com/schemas/shadows"
            CornerRadius="3">
    <sh:Shadows.Shades>
        <sh:ImmutableShades>
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="10"
                      Opacity="1"
                      Offset="-15,-15"
                      Color="Yellow" />
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="10"
                      Opacity="1"
                      Offset="15,15"
                      Color="Yellow" />
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="10"
                      Opacity="1"
                      Offset="-15,15"
                      Color="Violet" />
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="10"
                      Opacity="1"
                      Offset="15,-15"
                      Color="Violet" />
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="5"
                      Opacity="1"
                      Offset="-5,-5"
                      Color="DeepSkyBlue" />
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="5"
                      Opacity="1"
                      Offset="5,5"
                      Color="DeepSkyBlue" />
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="5"
                      Opacity="1"
                      Offset="0,0"
                      Color="White" />
        </sh:ImmutableShades>
    </sh:Shadows.Shades>
    <Label Style="{StaticResource TextHuge}"
           VerticalOptions="Center"
           FontFamily="{StaticResource FontKarmatic}"
           Text="Shadows" />
</sh:Shadows>

OUTPUT

Neumorphism

To have a nice Neumorphism effect we need to choose a background color. I found that #F0F0F3 was quite good, so I will stick to it for our content and our page background color.

Since Neumorphism implementation is made of 2 shadows, one bright at the top left, one dark at the bottom right, achieving a Neumorphism style with Shadows for all the views is really easy:

<Style ApplyToDerivedTypes="True" TargetType="sh:Shadows">
    <Setter Property="CornerRadius" Value="10" />
    <Setter Property="Shades">
        <sh:ImmutableShades>
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="10"
                      Opacity="1"
                      Offset="-10,-10"
                      Color="White" />
            <sh:Shade BlurRadius="10"
                      Opacity="1"
                      Offset="6, 6"
                      Color="#19000000" />
        </sh:ImmutableShades>
    </Setter>
</Style>

If you want to add Neumorphism to specific elements a NeumorphismShades markup extension will help you with that:

XAML

<sh:Shadows Grid.Row="1"
            Grid.Column="0"
            CornerRadius="40"
            Shades="{sh:NeumorphismShades}">
    <ImageButton WidthRequest="60"
                 HeightRequest="60"
                 Padding="20"
                 HorizontalOptions="Center"
                 VerticalOptions="Center"
                 BackgroundColor="#F0F0F3"
                 CornerRadius="30"
                 Source="{StaticResource IconPlusGray}" />
</sh:Shadows>

<sh:Shadows Grid.Row="1"
            Grid.Column="1"
            CornerRadius="10"
            Shades="{sh:NeumorphismShades}">
    <Button Style="{StaticResource TextHeadline}"
            WidthRequest="120"
            HeightRequest="60"
            HorizontalOptions="Center"
            VerticalOptions="Center"
            BackgroundColor="#F0F0F3"
            CornerRadius="10"
            Text="Reset"
            TextColor="Gray" />
</sh:Shadows>

OUTPUT

Be creative!

One last thing: all properties of a Shade are animatable.

You can achieve nice effects thinking outside the box! Have a look at the BeCreative.xaml file and its code-behind.

Immutable and mutable collections of shades

To have a better control of your shades, Shadows provides 2 kinds of MarkupExtension:

One immutable collection of shades: ImmutableShades
One mutable collection: ShadesStack

Use the first one if the shade collection will not change and the second one if you want to dynamically add or remove shades.

Dynamic shades starting with 0 shade.

<sh:Shadows CornerRadius="10">
    <sh:Shadows.Shades>
        <sh:ShadeStack />
    </sh:Shadows.Shades>
    <Frame WidthRequest="80"
           Padding="10"
           HorizontalOptions="Center"
           VerticalOptions="Center"
           BackgroundColor="White"
           CornerRadius="10">
        <Image Source="{images:ImageResource nyan_cat.png}" />
    </Frame>
</sh:Shadows>

SingleShade

You can also use the SingleShade markup extension if you just have one shadow. It will remove some xaml elements:

<sh:Shadows CornerRadius="30"
            Shades="{sh:SingleShade Offset='0, 10',
                                    Opacity=0.7,
                                    Color=Violet}">
    <ImageButton WidthRequest="60"
                 HeightRequest="60"
                 Padding="20"
                 HorizontalOptions="Center"
                 VerticalOptions="Center"
                 BackgroundColor="Violet"
                 CornerRadius="30"
                 Source="{StaticResource IconPlusWhite}" />
</sh:Shadows>

Performance

On Android, shadows are created thanks to RenderScript. Bitmaps are cached and only recreated when needed
On iOS, a Shade is implemented with a simple CALayer
On UWP, Shade is implemented with SpriteVisual drop shadows.
On Tizen, Shade is implemented with SkiaSharp.

LuckyDucko/Sharpnado.Shadows

Sharpnado.Shadows

Initialization

Presentation

Using Shadows

Shades

Neumorphism

Be creative!

Immutable and mutable collections of shades

SingleShade

Performance