Converting a Xamarin.Forms view into a Native view for each platform (iOS/Android)

Sample repository that shows converting Xamarin.Forms view into a Native view.

This sample application is a demo of taking a Xamarin.Forms view and turning it into a Native app.

The use cases for this application could be as follows:

• You have a custom renderer and want to show a subview from that custom renderer
• You need to supply a Native view to a 3rd party component

This primary code from this is based on two helper functions.

For the iOS project

public class FormsViewToNativeiOS
{
    public static UIView ConvertFormsToNative(Xamarin.Forms.View view, CGRect size)
    {
        var renderer = RendererFactory.GetRenderer (view);

        renderer.NativeView.Frame = size;

        renderer.NativeView.AutoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizing.All;
        renderer.NativeView.ContentMode = UIViewContentMode.ScaleToFill;

        renderer.Element.Layout (size.ToRectangle());

        var nativeView = renderer.NativeView;

        nativeView.SetNeedsLayout ();

        return nativeView;
    }
}

For the android project

public class FormsToNativeDroid
{
    public static ViewGroup ConvertFormsToNative(Xamarin.Forms.View view, Rectangle size)
    {
        var vRenderer = RendererFactory.GetRenderer (view);
        var viewGroup = vRenderer.ViewGroup;
        vRenderer.Tracker.UpdateLayout ();
        var layoutParams = new ViewGroup.LayoutParams ((int)size.Width, (int)size.Height);
        viewGroup.LayoutParameters = layoutParams;
        view.Layout (size);
        viewGroup.Layout (0, 0, (int)view.WidthRequest, (int)view.HeightRequest);
        return viewGroup; 
    }
}