How do I force child controls or layouts to be the same width as the parent in Xamarin Forms? - xaml

I have the following code.
<?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="NGIC_XAML.Views.Payments.Payments">
<ContentPage.Content>
<FlexLayout Direction="Column" AlignItems="Center" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand">
<StackLayout BackgroundColor="Red" HeightRequest="108" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand">
<Label Text="Payments" TextColor="#F9F8FA" FontSize="20" Margin="40"
HorizontalTextAlignment="Center" VerticalOptions="Center"
HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand">
</Label>
</StackLayout>
</FlexLayout>
</ContentPage.Content>
</ContentPage>
I want the outer layout, the FlexLayout, to automatically size the width to the device's maximum. I want the Layout (the StackLayout) and child Control (the Label), to also automatically resize their widths to the FlexLayout. I am stumped as to how to do this. Any suggestions?

In the FlexLayout docs, they mention "The HorizontalOptions property doesn't work for children of a FlexLayout".
If you take a look at the Page layout with FlexLayout section (Holy Grail Layout) you can see an example somewhat similar to what you are trying to accomplish, basically use a nested FlexLayout instead of a StackLayout.
The code would look like:
<ContentPage.Content>
<FlexLayout
BackgroundColor="Yellow"
Direction="Column">
<FlexLayout
HeightRequest="108"
AlignItems="Center"
Direction="Column"
BackgroundColor="Red">
<Label
BackgroundColor="Green"
LineBreakMode="CharacterWrap"
Text="Payments"
TextColor="#F9F8FA"
FontSize="20"
Margin="40"
HorizontalTextAlignment="Center"
VerticalOptions="Center">
</Label>
</FlexLayout>
</FlexLayout>
</ContentPage.Content>
And here is the screenshot:
Notice that the label will grow as needed to use the full width of the row.

To achieve this, please assign HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" to StackLayout and Label and other child controls if any.
This will tell the controls to fill all the space available horizontally.
Thanks!

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Stretch BindableLayout.ItemTemplate in Maui horizontally

I have a HorizontalStackLayout with elements in it added via the BindableLayout.Itemsource.
This is an example of what I mean:
<ContentPage xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/dotnet/2021/maui"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
x:Class="StackLayoutStretchTest.MainPage">
<VerticalStackLayout>
<HorizontalStackLayout
HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"
BackgroundColor="Green">
<BindableLayout.ItemsSource>
<x:Array Type="{x:Type x:String}">
<x:String>Baboon</x:String>
<x:String>Capuchin Monkey</x:String>
<x:String>Blue Monkey</x:String>
<x:String>Squirrel Monkey</x:String>
<x:String>Golden Lion Tamarin</x:String>
<x:String>Howler Monkey</x:String>
<x:String>Japanese Macaque</x:String>
</x:Array>
</BindableLayout.ItemsSource>
<BindableLayout.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<Label Text="{Binding .}"
VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"
HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
HorizontalTextAlignment="Center"
TextColor="White"
BackgroundColor="DarkBlue"/>
</DataTemplate>
</BindableLayout.ItemTemplate>
</HorizontalStackLayout>
<VerticalStackLayout HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand">
<Label Text="Text"
HorizontalTextAlignment="Center"
TextColor="Black"
BackgroundColor="White"/>
</VerticalStackLayout>
</VerticalStackLayout>
</ContentPage>
How can I make the Labels(Blue) FillAndExpand into the free space(Green)?
The Maui learn page says:
A HorizontalStackLayout only respects the alignment preferences on
child views that are in the opposite direction to the orientation of
the layout.
Is there a way to stretch the children, or what is the appropriate "container" for this use case?
Please be noted that it's a known issue that being tracked in [Bug] LayoutOptions Expand not work in HorizontalStackLayout and VerticalStackLayout . To be clear, the AndExpand options are deprecated, and are not supported in the new HorizontalStackLayout and VerticalStackLayout. As an alternative solution, you can achieve the same layout with a Grid. Or you can continue to use StackLayout for another choice.

Space around in xamarin forms

Im using xamarin forms.
i wanna design my xaml files but i realized something strange.
left and right of entry has space that i couldnt remove even with custom renderer.
is there any idea what is might be?
i tried padding,margin,HorizontalOption none of them effected.
even i tried to setPadding to 0 from custom renderer in android but it didnt work.
the first one is label as you can see filled out all the space but entry has an space around it .
Update:
this is my xaml codes and im using android emulator to test.
<StackLayout BackgroundColor="White" Spacing="15">
<Label Text="fds" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" BackgroundColor="Red"/>
<Entry BackgroundColor="Red" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"/>
</StackLayout>
don't know how is your implementation but this what I tried:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage
xmlns:bases="clr-namespace:WhiteSolution.Views.Bases"
xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
xmlns:viewModelBase="clr-namespace:WhiteSolution.ViewModels.Bases"
viewModelBase:ViewModelLocator.AutoWireViewModel="True"
x:Class="WhiteSolution.Views.HomePage">
<ContentPage.Content>
<Grid VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"
BackgroundColor="WhiteSmoke">
<StackLayout Padding="0"
Spacing="0"
BackgroundColor="Blue">
<Label Text="no space label"
Margin="0"
HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
HorizontalTextAlignment="Center"
BackgroundColor="Yellow"
FontSize="Large"/>
<Entry Text="no space entry"
Margin="0"
BackgroundColor="Red"
HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
HorizontalTextAlignment="Center"
FontSize="Large"/>
</StackLayout>
</Grid>
</ContentPage.Content>
</ContentPage>
and i get this result
if you share your code it will be more useful
Try this, Padding Property should be 0 in main StackLayout.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
x:Class="SampleApp.Views.DashboardView">
<ContentPage.Content>
<StackLayout Padding="0" BindingContext="{Binding Dashboard}">
<!-- Controls -->
</StackLayout>
</ContentPage.Content>
I realized that entry has Default margin value. so i set it to 0 and everything worked.
here is my code
<StackLayout>
<Entry Margin="0" Text="fd" BackgroundColor="Red" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"/>
<Label Text="fd" BackgroundColor="Red" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"/>
</StackLayout>

Background Image XAML

I am trying to incorporate a background image into my App using Xaml. I have tried various different methods but none seem to working. My code at the minute is
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Cabiee;assembly=Cabiee"
BackgroundImage="CabieBackground.jpg"
x:Class="Cabiee.Login">
<ContentPage.Content>
<StackLayout VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand" HeightRequest="500">
<Entry
x:Name="usernameEntry"
Placeholder="Email"/>
<Entry
x:Name="passwordEntry"
IsPassword="true"
Placeholder="*********"
Completed="PasswordEntry_Completed"/>
<StackLayout Orientation="Horizontal">
<Button
x:Name="BtnCustomer"
Text="Customer"
HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"
FontSize="30"
Clicked="BtnCustomer_Clicked"/>
<Button
x:Name="BtnDriver"
Text="Driver"
HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"
FontSize="30"
Clicked="BtnDriver_Clicked"/>
</StackLayout>
<RelativeLayout HorizontalOptions="CenterAndExpand" >
<Button
x:Name="BtnRegister"
WidthRequest="300"
Text="Register"
FontSize="30"
Clicked="BtnRegister_Clicked"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
</StackLayout>
</ContentPage.Content>
And this what my solution explorer looks like: https://gyazo.com/0af186bbca7e8456dfb1e7b1bafcb7ad
I have CabieBackground.jpg in my Resources folder so that is displays on android but when i run the code nothing appears on the screen, it just blank
The background image was made in photoshop, the dimensions are: 640px by 1136 px with a resolution of 600 pixels/inch
You need to put your image in drawable folder. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/user-interface/images?tabs=windows#local-images
As said in the comment, you should also ensure that the image has right properties as copy and paste make wrong properties.

Vertical text align on side menu xamarin.forms

I have been trying to centralize the text- "Hello Janine Alexander" on this side menu but to no avail. I have tried YAlign="Center" and also VerticalTextAlignment="Center" but neither have moved it even an inch down. Any help will be appreciated. I do think its in the navigation bar resulting in it not moving vertically down.How do i fix this
Here is the complete xaml code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<MasterDetailPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
x:Class="loyaltyworx1.Profile">
<MasterDetailPage.Master>
<ContentPage Title="Menu"
BackgroundColor="#2196F3">
<StackLayout Orientation="Vertical">
<Label x:Name="lblMessage" FontSize="Medium" HorizontalOptions="Center" TextColor="White" />
<!--
This StackLayout you can use for other
data that you want to have in your menu drawer
-->
<StackLayout BackgroundColor="#2196F3"
HeightRequest="150">
<Label Text=""
FontSize="20"
VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand"
TextColor="White"
HorizontalOptions="Center"/>
</StackLayout>
<ListView x:Name="navigationDrawerList"
RowHeight="60"
SeparatorVisibility="None"
BackgroundColor="White"
ItemSelected="OnMenuItemSelected">
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<ViewCell>
<!-- Main design for our menu items -->
<StackLayout VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand"
Orientation="Horizontal"
Padding="20,10,0,10"
Spacing="20">
<Image Source="{Binding Icon}"
WidthRequest="40"
HeightRequest="40"
VerticalOptions="Center"
/>
<Label Text="{Binding Title}"
FontSize="Medium"
VerticalOptions="Center"
TextColor="#343f42"/>
</StackLayout>
</ViewCell>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
</StackLayout>
</ContentPage>
</MasterDetailPage.Master>
<MasterDetailPage.Detail>
<NavigationPage>
</NavigationPage>
</MasterDetailPage.Detail>
</MasterDetailPage>
It looks like you're adding it to the Navigation bar of the MasterDetailPage. If so, you're not going to be able to move it down. What I did on my app was to remove the navigationbar in the MasterDetailPage and in the content page I added the label with binding to add the name of the logged in user.
MainPage.xaml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<MasterDetailPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:MyApp"
x:Class="MyApp.MainPage"
NavigationPage.HasNavigationBar="False">
<MasterDetailPage.Master>
<local:MasterPage x:Name ="masterPage"/>
</MasterDetailPage.Master>
</MasterDetailPage>
MasterPage.xaml
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
x:Class="MyApp.MasterPage"
Padding="0,10,0,0"
Icon="hamburger.png"
Title="Menu">
<ContentPage.Content>
<StackLayout>
<StackLayout Orientation="Horizontal" Padding="10,10,0,0">
<Label Text="" FontSize="40" FontFamily="FontAwesome" />
<Label x:Name="Username" Text="{Binding UserFullName}" VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand"/>
</StackLayout>
.....
Screen shot
If that's not the issue please add the code that is wrapping the label to get a better idea of what could be happening.

How to use a Frame as the root element of a ListView in Xamarin.Forms?

I am trying to achieve a list of Card-like records for the timeline on an application built in Xamarin.Forms, this is the layout that more or less I need to replicate:
I think I am close, I have two records on my code behind that I assign as the ItemSource to a listView on the XAML side, and this is my result so far:
But as you can see, the elements are not showing at all inside their frame, if I replace the form controls with TextCells or ImageCells, the data shows fine. This is the XAML code I have so far:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ContentPage Title="AudioBitts"
xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
xmlns:local="clr-namespace:AudioBitts"
x:Class="AudioBitts.TimelinePage">
<ListView x:Name="listView">
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<ViewCell Height="300">
<Frame HasShadow="true" Margin="5">
<StackLayout>
<StackLayout Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image Source="{Binding UserAvatar}" />
<Label Text="{Binding UserName}" />
</StackLayout>
<Image Source="{Binding BittImage}" />
</StackLayout>
</Frame>
</ViewCell>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
</ContentPage>
Am I missing something on the structure I am giving to my XAML code? Thanks!
You can set ListView.RowHeight or set ListView.HasUnevenRow to allow the data to be displayed in full.