protected async override void OnElementChanged (VisualElementChangedEventArgs e)
{
base.OnElementChanged (e);
navigation = NavigationController;
window = new UIWindow(UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds);
//This is the class which actually implements the component a couple of elements to make it work
viewController = new JSQmessages();
//sender is a public field of JSQmessages and it is populated using the public fields we defined in the orginal forms ChatPage.
viewController.sender = new User (){ Id = ChatPage.senderID, DisplayName = ChatPage.senderName };
viewController.View.Frame = this.View.Frame;
navigationController = new UINavigationController();
navigationController.PushViewController(viewController, false);
AddChildViewController (viewController);
/*the Frame is smaller than the entire screen, this lets us still retain the original Navigation bar from Xamarin Forms,
* so it's easy to dismiss the page from the view hierarchy if we retain the navbar that forms created for us */
viewController.View.Frame = new CGRect(this.View.Frame.X,this.View.Frame.Y,this.View.Bounds.Width,this.View.Bounds.Height - 64f);
this.View.AddSubview (viewController.View);
this.DidMoveToParentViewController (viewController);
}
protected async override void OnElementChanged(VisualElementChangedEventArgs e)
{
base.OnElementChanged(e);
navigation = NavigationController;
window = new UIWindow(UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds);
//This is the class which actually implements the component a couple of elements to make it work
viewController = new JSQmessages();
//sender is a public field of JSQmessages and it is populated using the public fields we defined in the orginal forms ChatPage.
viewController.sender = new User()
{
Id = ChatPage.senderID, DisplayName = ChatPage.senderName
};
viewController.View.Frame = this.View.Frame;
navigationController = new UINavigationController();
navigationController.PushViewController(viewController, false);
AddChildViewController(viewController);
/*the Frame is smaller than the entire screen, this lets us still retain the original Navigation bar from Xamarin Forms,
* so it's easy to dismiss the page from the view hierarchy if we retain the navbar that forms created for us */
viewController.View.Frame = new CGRect(this.View.Frame.X, this.View.Frame.Y, this.View.Bounds.Width, this.View.Bounds.Height - 64f);
this.View.AddSubview(viewController.View);
this.DidMoveToParentViewController(viewController);
}