Plugin Segmented Control for Xamarin Forms and .NET Standard

Please star this project if you find it useful. Thank you!

Why this library?

There are other Segmented Control libraries out there. This library adds two important capabilities:

It works across all four key platforms: iOS, Android and UWP - all other libraries I've encounted lack UWP and/or MacOS.
It's based on .NET Standard 2.0

Furthermore, this library is has more flexibility and features than other libraries that I'm aware of.

Enjoy! And please don't forget to star this project if you find it useful and/or provide feedback if you run into issues or shortcomings.

Supported platforms

Platform	Supported	Version	Renderer
Xamarin.iOS Unified	Yes	iOS 8.1+	UISegmentedControl
Xamarin.Android	Yes	API 26+	RadioGroup
Xamarin.UWP	Yes	Win10 16299+	User Control/RadioButton
Xamarin.MacOS	Yes	10.0+	NSSegmentedControl

Features

Bindable Tint color
Bindable Select color
Bindable Disabled color
Bindable Font size
Bindable Font Family
Bindable Item Text
Bindable Selected Item
Bindable ICommand
Bindable IsEnabled Item
Bindable ItemsSource

For more details please see below or for even more details see: Test/Demo App

How to use

Using this plugin is easy.

iOS

Add initializer to AppDelegate

public override bool FinishedLaunching(UIApplication app, NSDictionary options)
{
    global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init();

    Plugin.Segmented.Control.iOS.SegmentedControlRenderer.Initialize();
    ...
}

UWP

You need to add the assembly to App.xaml.cs in you project. For more details see the Xamarin documentation here.

var assembliesToInclude = new List<Assembly> {typeof(Plugin.Segmented.Control.UWP.SegmentedControlRenderer).GetTypeInfo().Assembly};

Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(e, assembliesToInclude);

Android

No special needs.

For using custom fonts with Android see this blog post: https://blog.verslu.is/xamarin/xamarin-forms-xamarin/custom-fonts-with-xamarin-forms-revisited/

.NET Standard

The Xamarin Forms must use .NET Standard. I suggest using .NET Standard 2.0+.

Here is a great blog post about how to move your PCL to .NET Standard: Building Xamarin.Forms Apps with .NET Standard

XAML

<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Test.SegmentedControl"
             xmlns:control="clr-namespace:Plugin.Segmented.Control;assembly=Plugin.Segmented"
             x:Class="Test.SegmentedControl.MainPage">

    <ContentPage.Resources>
        <OnPlatform x:Key="PlatformFontName" x:TypeArguments="x:String">
            <On Platform="UWP" Value="Courier New"></On>
            <On Platform="Android" Value="Serif"></On>
            <On Platform="iOS" Value="Helvetica"></On>
            <On Platform="macOS" Value="Baskerville"></On>
        </OnPlatform>
    </ContentPage.Resources>
    
    <ContentPage.Content>
        <StackLayout BackgroundColor="White" x:Name="SegmentWithStack">
            <Label 
                Text="Welcome to Xamarin.Forms!"
                HorizontalOptions="CenterAndExpand" />
            <control:SegmentedControl 
                x:Name="SegmentedControl" 
                SelectedSegment="{Binding SelectedSegment, Mode=TwoWay}"
                TintColor="BlueViolet"
                SelectedTextColor="White"
                DisabledColor="Gray"
                FontSize="Small"
                FontFamily="{StaticResource PlatformFontName}"
                Margin="8,8,8,8"
                SegmentSelectedCommand="{Binding SegmentChangedCommand}"
                OnElementChildrenChanging="OnElementChildrenChanging"
                ItemsSource="{Binding SegmentStringSource}">
                <!--<control:SegmentedControl.Children>
                    <control:SegmentedControlOption Text="{Binding ChangeText}"/>
                    <control:SegmentedControlOption Text="Item 2"/>
                    <control:SegmentedControlOption Text="Item 3"/>
                    <control:SegmentedControlOption Text="Item 4"/>
                </control:SegmentedControl.Children>-->
            </control:SegmentedControl>
        </StackLayout>
    </ContentPage.Content>
</ContentPage>

You can bind to the SegmentSelectedCommand for notification in your view model when a segment change has occurred.

<control:SegmentedControl
    SegmentSelectedCommand="{Binding SegmentChangedCommand}"
</control:SegmentedControl>

Credits

For inspiration and for the Android and iOS part I'd like to thank Alex Rainman for his great work on SegmentedControl.FormsPlugin.

Thank you to rjantz3 for adding much requested features and enhancements to this control library.

cabal95/Plugin.SegmentedControl