Xamarin Tabbed View (SfTabView)

The Tabbed View control is available in Xamarin.Forms, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.UWP. It helps you to create the customizable features that are used to explore and switch among the different views.

For know more details about TabView: https://www.syncfusion.com/xamarin-ui-controls/xamarin-tabbed-view

TabView user guide documentation: https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin/tabbed-view/getting-started

Creating the project

Create a new BlankApp (Xamarin.Forms.Portable) application in Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio for Xamarin.Forms.

Adding SfTabView in Xamarin.Forms

Add the required assembly references to the PCL and renderer projects as discussed in the Assembly deployment section.

Import the control namespace as shown in the following code.

[XAML]

xmlns:tabView="clr-namespace:Syncfusion.XForms.TabView;assembly=Syncfusion.SfTabView.XForms"

[C#]

using Syncfusion.XForms.TabView;

Set the control to content in ContentPage.

[XAML]

 <ContentPage.Content> 
        <tabView:SfTabView/> 
 </ContentPage.Content> 

[C#]

public MainPage()   
{   
    InitializeComponent();       
    tabView = new SfTabView();   
    this.Content = tabView;  
}  

Font icons in the header

You can refer this link for getting the font icons. Add the font file to your application by using the following steps for each platform:

Adding font file for iOS

• Add the font family inside Resource folder iOS project.
• Add the font file with the following build action: BundleResource.
• Update the Info.plist file (fonts that are provided by application, UIAppFonts, or key).

Adding font file for Android

Add the font file to the Assets folder in the application project, and set the following build action: AndroidAsset.

Adding font file for UWP

Add the font family inside the application project of UWP

Setting font file for font icons

[XAML]

    <ContentPage.Resources>
        <ResourceDictionary>
            <OnPlatform x:TypeArguments="x:String" 
                        x:Key="fonts"
                        iOS="OpenTypeFont" 
                        Android="Fonts/OpenTypeFont.ttf" />
            <OnPlatform x:TypeArguments="x:String" 
                        x:Key="fonts" 
                        iOS="Fonts/fa-regular-400" 
                        Android="Fonts/fa-regular-400.ttf" />
        </ResourceDictionary>
    </ContentPage.Resources>
    <ContentPage.Content>
        <Grid BackgroundColor="White" Padding="0,20,0,0">
            <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                <RowDefinition Height="30" />
                <RowDefinition Height="*" />
            </Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <Label Text="Welcome to the Xamarin forms" Grid.Row="0" />
            <tabview:SfTabView Margin="0,0,0,2" 
                               x:Name="SimTab" 
                               VisibleHeaderCount="4" 
                               TabHeaderPosition="Bottom" 
                               DisplayMode="ImageWithText"
                               EnableSwiping="true" 
                               Grid.Row="1" >
                <tabview:SfTabView.Items>
                    <tabview:SfTabItem Title="Chat"   
                                       TitleFontSize="14"
                                       IconFont="A"
                                       FontIconFontFamily="{StaticResource fonts}"
                                       SelectionColor="#FF00AFF0"
                                       FontIconFontColor="#FF00AFF0"
                                       TitleFontColor="#FF00AFF0">
                        <tabview:SfTabItem.Content>
                            <Label Text="Hai" />
                        </tabview:SfTabItem.Content>
                    </tabview:SfTabItem>
                    <tabview:SfTabItem Title="Chat2"   
                                       TitleFontSize="14"
                                       IconFont="&#xf000;"
                                       FontIconFontFamily="{StaticResource fonts}"
                                       SelectionColor="#FF00AFF0"
                                       FontIconFontColor="#FF00AFF0"
                                       TitleFontColor="#FF00AFF0">
                        <tabview:SfTabItem.Content>
                            <Label Text="Hai" />
                        </tabview:SfTabItem.Content>
                    </tabview:SfTabItem>
                    <tabview:SfTabItem Title="like"   
                                       TitleFontSize="14"
                                       IconFont="&#0041;"
                                       FontIconFontFamily="{StaticResource fonts}"
                                       SelectionColor="#FF00AFF0"
                                       FontIconFontColor="#FF00AFF0"
                                       TitleFontColor="#FF00AFF0">
                        <tabview:SfTabItem.Content>
                            <Label Text="Hello"/>
                        </tabview:SfTabItem.Content>
                    </tabview:SfTabItem>
                    <tabview:SfTabItem Title="dislike"   
                                       TitleFontSize="14"
                                       IconFont="&#0041;"
                                       FontIconFontFamily="Fonts/OpenTypeFont.ttf"
                                       SelectionColor="#FF00AFF0"
                                       FontIconFontColor="#FF00AFF0"
                                       TitleFontColor="#FF00AFF0">
                        <tabview:SfTabItem.Content>
                            <Label Text="How are"/>
                        </tabview:SfTabItem.Content>
                    </tabview:SfTabItem>
                    <tabview:SfTabItem Title="status"
                                       TitleFontSize="14"
                                       IconFont="C"
                                       FontIconFontFamily="{StaticResource fonts}"
                                       SelectionColor="#FF00AFF0"
                                       FontIconFontColor="#FF00AFF0"
                                       TitleFontColor="#FF00AFF0">
                        <tabview:SfTabItem.Content>
                            <Label Text="You"/>
                        </tabview:SfTabItem.Content>
                    </tabview:SfTabItem>
                </tabview:SfTabView.Items>
            </tabview:SfTabView>
        </Grid>
    </ContentPage.Content>
</ContentPage>

How to run this application?

To run this application, you need to first clone the tabview-font-sample repository and then open it in Visual Studio 2022. Now, simply build and run your project to view the output.

Troubleshooting

Path too long exception

If you are facing path too long exception when building this example project, close Visual Studio and rename the repository to short and build the project.

License

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