[Enhancement] Entry Clear Button Color Effect

[Axemasta]

Summary

I recently came across the requirement to change the color of the clear button on an Entry and wrote and effect for it. It wasn't the nicest experience getting working on specifically iOS and thought it might be a nice addition to the community toolkit.

API Changes

A new effect named:
ClearButtonColorEffect

With the parameters: Color, defaulting to Color.Default

Intended Use Case

For making Entrys look fancier!

A pink clear button on iOS

A red clear button on Android

In Xaml:

<Entry Placeholder="Write Something" Text="Clear Me" ClearButtonVisibility="WhileEditing">
    <Entry.Effects>
        <effects:ClearButtonColorEffect Color="Lime"/>
    </Entry.Effects>
</Entry>

Who Will Do The Work?

• I am willing to take this on myself
• Just putting this out there for someone to pick up

[aritchie]

There is already a fix in a PR for XF to resolve this. xamarin/Xamarin.Forms#12391

[Axemasta]

Ah beat me to it!

Nevertheless here is the effect in a gist, not optimised at all but it give people the feature now, instead of waiting for a XF release 😁