I want to add the default iOS footer to the tablesection in the tableview in Xamarin Forms. How can I go about doing this? I assume a customer renderer but I'm only reading that this can be done for Tableview?
To show an example, the following image is from Xcode storyboards when I enter the footer text on a static cell.
A Custom renderer is right, but you will have to use a custom renderer for the entire TableView
. From there, you will need to override the TableViewModelRenderer
and then the GetViewForFooter
method in that ModelRenderer
. Here's something that might help get you started:
public class FooterTableViewRenderer : TableViewRenderer
{
protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<TableView> e)
{
base.OnElementChanged(e);
if (Control == null)
return;
var tableView = Control as UITableView;
var formsTableView = Element as TableView;
tableView.WeakDelegate = new CustomFooterTableViewModelRenderer (formsTableView);
}
private class CustomFooterTableViewModelRenderer : TableViewModelRenderer
{
public CustomFooterTableViewModelRenderer(TableView model) : base(model)
{
}
public override UIView GetViewForFooter(UITableView tableView, nint section)
{
return new UILabel()
{
Text = TitleForFooter(tableView, section), // or use some other text here
TextAlignment = UITextAlignment.Center
};
}
}
}
As mentioned in my comments below, you can alternatively override other methods in your TableViewModelRenderer
:
public override nfloat GetHeightForFooter(UITableView tableView, nint section)
{
return 10;
}
public override string TitleForFooter(UITableView tableView, nint section)
{
return "This is the title for this given section";
}