Enhanced Entry for Xamarin forms

Enhanced entry for Xamarin.forms projects that extends the current xamarin.forms entry. Unofficial.

• Must have set keyboard return button command or set focus to next entry when user taps the Input Method Editor i.e. Done/Next button on keyboard tapped => do something / set focus on the next specified entry.

• Customize keyboard return button.

• Rounded corners, border color border width and background colors. On and off focus border color property change

• Left icons perfect for form entry with padding enabled.

• Email and compare entries behavour validator (basically compares a collection of entries

PULL REQUESTS WELCOME IF YOUD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE FUNCTIONAILITY OR ADD ADDITIONAL BEHAVOURS

Screenshots

Setup

Available on NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/LeoJHarris.XForms.Plugin.EnhancedEntry NuGet Install into your PCL project and Client projects.

Usage

In your Android

        Xamarin.Forms.Init();
        LeoJHarris.EnhancedEntryEntry.Plugin.iOS.EnhancedEntryRenderer.Init();

You must do this AFTER you call Xamarin.Forms.Init();

In your iOS

        Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(); 
        LeoJHarris.EnhancedEntry.Plugin.iOS.EnhancedEntryRenderer.Init();
        LoadApplication(new App());

        new EnhancedEntry()
        {
            KeyBoardAction = LoginCommand,
            FocusBorderColor = Color.Yellow,
            BorderColor = Color.Red,
            LeftPadding = 10,
            RightPadding = 20,
            TopBottomPadding = 20,
            BorderWidth = 2,
            BackgroundColor = Color.Pink,
            LeftIcon = "email",
            EmailValidatorBehavior = new EmailValidatorBehavior()
        };
        
        new EnhancedEntry()
        {
            BorderWidth = 1,
            CornerRadius = 2,
            PasswordCompareValidation = new PasswordCompareValidationBehavior(new List<Entry>()
            {
                SomeEnhancedEntry,
            })
            {
                ValidColor = Color.Orange,
                InValidColor = Color.Red
            },
        };

Bindable Properties

You are able to set the LeftIcon which will place an icon to the left inside the entry, icons to be placed inside respective drawable folders and iOS in the resources files, set the PaddingLeftIcon for padding space between icon and entry text.

You are able to set the BorderWidth of the entry which must be set for respective bindables such as CornerRadius, FocusBorderColor etc.

You are able to set FocusBorderColor when the entry has focus, the BorderColor will be set when off focus.

You are able to set BackgroundColor of the entry.

You are able to set LeftPadding, RightPadding and TopBottomPadding which will set the desired padding between the entry text and the edge of the entry.

You are able to set the ReturnKeyType which will set the text displayed for the keyboard action button. Runtime exception will be thrown if unsupported on platoform.

You are able to set the NextEntry which is the entry that will be given focus if when keyboard action button invoked or if GoToNextEntryOnLengthBehaviour condition is satisfied.

You are able to set the KeyBoardAction which will take some given command parameter to exceute.

Custom Behaviours

You are able to set the PasswordCompareValidationBehavior which will compare these entries with some condition checks, each entry should contain the collection PasswordCompareValidation of entries to compare (see examples above), you are also able to set the ValidColor and InValidColor of the entry for the given condition of the password when there is or int a match. PLEASE NOTE: Although these bindable properties are set per entry, they should all have the same values for all entries to check in the collection. You are able to set the MinimumLength of the passwords. Currently the password validator requires an uppercase, lowercase and a number, therefore the minimum length can be set.

You are able to set the EmailValidatorBehavior for entries that will be used for emails, the EmailRegularExpression can be overriden if desired.

You are able to set GoToNextEntryOnLengthBehaviour which will set focus to the NextEntry on the given CharacterLength

License

Licensed under MIT, see license file