Vertically align BoxView in Grid cell - xaml

Question

With the following layout and styles, the BoxView isn't vertically centered such that it's aligned with the label. How do I achieve this?
<Grid Grid.Column="1">
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="10" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<BoxView Grid.Column="0" BackgroundColor="Red"></BoxView>
<Label Grid.Column="1" x:Name="lbl1"/>
</Grid>
<Style TargetType="BoxView">
<Setter Property="WidthRequest" Value="10" />
<Setter Property="HeightRequest" Value="10" />
<Setter Property="VerticalOptions" Value="Center" />
<Setter Property="HorizontalOptions" Value="Center" />
</Style>
<Style TargetType="Label">
<Setter Property="FontSize" Value="12" />
<Setter Property="YAlign" Value="Center" />
</Style>
Setting VerticalOptions to Start or End has the box flush against the top or bottom respectively. So, it doesn't seem to be doing central alignment correctly.

Answer 1

Use CenterAndExpand instead
<Style TargetType="BoxView">
<Setter Property="WidthRequest" Value="10" />
<Setter Property="HeightRequest" Value="10" />
<Setter Property="VerticalOptions" Value="CenterAndExpand" />
<Setter Property="HorizontalOptions" Value="Center" />
</Style>
Update: Here's a very good explanation of the difference.
Hope this helps.-

Answer 2

1) Try to add an explicit RowDefinition and its height;
2) Try adjust the label's FontSize to the BoxView size;
Or a dirty hack: you can add a top margin to the BoxView.

Answer 3

You need to use this on the Label too:
<Setter Property="VerticalOptions" Value="Center" />
Your code is just aligning the text position inside the label, not the position of the label itself.

Answer 4

When fighting text not aligning vertically:
Try the following: set for label
VerticalOptions="Fill"
VerticalTextAlignment="Center"
Consider a case when your elements are vertically aligned but do not seem so because of font creator settings, font adding more space to bottom or top breaking alignment. This can be solved a custom renderers system or by a silly
TranslationY="1"
or "-0.5" whatever..