/XamEffects

📱 Xamarin.Forms UI effects

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XamEffects - UI effects for Xamarin.Forms

NuGet

Setup

Install-Package XamEffects
  • You have to install this nuget package to Xamarin.Forms project and each platform project.
  • Call after Forms.Init(...):
    • XamEffects.iOS.Effects.Init(); for iOS AppDelegate in FinishedLaunching
    • XamEffects.Droid.Effects.Init(); for Android MainActivity in OnCreate
Platform Minimum version
iOS 8
Android 4.1 (API 16)
Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0
.NETStandard 1.0

Features

TouchEffect

Add touch effect to views.

For Android API >=21 using Ripple effect, for Android API <21 and iOS using animated highlighted view.

iOS Android API >=21 Android API <21
Property Type Value type Default Description
Color bindable attached Color Color.Default Front/Ripple color when touched. For deactivate effect set Color.Default value. If color will have alpha channel is 255 effect will change it to ±80.

Example

<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:XamEffects.Sample"
             xmlns:xe="clr-namespace:XamEffects;assembly=XamEffects"
             x:Class="XamEffects.Sample.MainPage">
    <Grid HorizontalOptions="Center"
          VerticalOptions="Center"
          HeightRequest="100"
          WidthRequest="200"
          BackgroundColor="LightGray" 
          xe:TouchEffect.Color="Red">
        <Label Text="Test touch effect"
               HorizontalOptions="Center"
               VerticalOptions="Center"/>
    </Grid>
</ContentPage>
TouchEffect.SetColor(view, Color.Red);

Important & known issues

  • Effect may not work in views with enabled Fast Renderers.
  • Effect may not work in views with another gestures and effects like Button, Slider, Picker, Entry, Editor etc.
  • Effect may not work correctly with standard gestures in Xamarin.Forms. If you need some gestures with touch effect, use not GestureRecognizer, but Commands.

If effect doesn't work, try wrap view with ContentView and add effect to wrapper.

Commands

Add command to views.

Property Type Value type Default Description
Tap bindable attached ICommand null Tap command
TapParameter bindable attached object null Tap command parameter
LongTap bindable attached ICommand null Long tap command
LongTapParameter bindable attached object null Long tap command parameter

Example

<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:XamEffects.Sample"
             xmlns:xe="clr-namespace:XamEffects;assembly=XamEffects"
             x:Class="XamEffects.Sample.MainPage">
    <Grid HorizontalOptions="Center"
          VerticalOptions="Center"
          HeightRequest="100"
          WidthRequest="200"
          BackgroundColor="LightGray" 
          xe:Commands.Tap="{Binding TapCommand}"
          xe:Commands.LongTap="{Binding LongTapCommand}">
        <Label Text="Test commands"
               HorizontalOptions="Center"
               VerticalOptions="Center"/>
    </Grid>
</ContentPage>
Commands.SetTap(view, new Command(() => {
  //do something
}));
Commands.SetTapParameter(view, someObject);

BorderView

View with borders, corner radius and clipping to bounds. View based on ContentView, you can specify child through Content property.

Property Type Value type Default Description
CornerRadius bindable attached double 0 Corner radius
BorderWidth bindable attached double 0 Border width
BorderColor bindable attached Color Color.Default Border color

Example

<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:XamEffects.Sample"
             xmlns:xe="clr-namespace:XamEffects;assembly=XamEffects"
             x:Class="XamEffects.Sample.MainPage">
    <xe:BorderView 
          HeightRequest="100"
          WidthRequest="200"
          HorizontalOptions="Center"
          VerticalOptions="Center"
          BackgroundColor="LightGray"
          CornerRadius="15"
          BorderColor="Green"
          BorderWidth="2">
        <Label HorizontalOptions="Center"
               VerticalOptions="Center"
               Text="Some content"/>
    </xe:BorderView>
</ContentPage>

Why view, not effect like other features? Firstly I planned to do this. For iOS there are no problems, but for Android for clipping to rounded corners need override DispatchDraw from native view, that isn't possible from effect.

Important & known issues

  • Padding work incorrectly in Android. Use margin in child view.

EffectsConfig

Configs and helpers for effects.

Property Type Value type Default Description
AutoChildrenInputTransparent usual static bool True Set ChildrenInputTransparent automatically for views with TouchEffect or Command. If value is True you DON'T need manually configure ChildrenInputTransparent.
ChildrenInputTransparent bindable attached bool False If you use TouchEffect or Commands for Layout (Grid, StackLayout, etc.) and EffectsConfig.AutoChildrenInputTransparent is False you have to set this parameter to True otherwise in Android layout's children will overlaps these effects. Also you can set InputTransparent = True for each children (EXCEPT views using any effect) manually.

License

MIT Licensed.

To do

Support UWP

Release notes

Moved to Release notes