iOS: cannot set the PlatformView.BarTintColor for the SearchBar

[vasile135]

Description

Trying to achieve a transparent SearchBar background on iOS by using the SearchBarHandler Mapper.
The BarTintColor never changes:

Steps to Reproduce

Appended the following to the SearchBarHandler Mapper:

The app doesn't react to the BarTintColor change and continues to display a gray background.
Noticed the following warning:

My workloads:

Tested also with .NET 6 - same.

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/vasile135/SearchBarTintColorTest

Version with bug

7.0.92

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

No, this is something new

Last version that worked well

Affected platforms

iOS

Affected platform versions

iOS 16.6

Did you find any workaround?

No

Relevant log output

No response

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[XamlTest]

Verified this on Visual Studio Enterprise 17.9.0 Preview 1(8.0.3). Repro on iOS 17.0 with below Project:
SearchBarTintColorTest.zip

[RobFrancisAu]

UPDATE 2:

Having finally achieved what I set out to do I thought I'd post the result.

NOTE : All colours behind the white search entry belong to the page itself, not the SearchBar.

// Remove the top and bottom grey lines which belong to the SearchBar.
// SearchBarStyle.Minimal also does this however it then also gives the SearchTextField a grey colour that I was unable to remove.
handler.PlatformView.BackgroundImage = new UIImage();

//Sets the background colour of the Search text field.
handler.PlatformView.SearchTextField.BackgroundColor = searchBar.ForegroundColor.ToPlatform(); // This colour is coming from control I extended.

UPDATE 1 :

It appears the thing you're looking for is handler.PlatformView.SearchTextField.BackgroundColor

ORIGINAL QUESTION :

I've just run into this problem. Has anyone found a workaround for this yet?