Binding to ListView item tapped property from View Model

Question

I am trying to bind an event to a ListView, on my menu page, using the itemtapped property. Currently I am using MVVM (Xamarin form labs) framework in my app. What I am trying to accomplish is when a user taps the menu item the app navigates to the correct view.

Here is the xaml code:

<ListView x:Name="list"
        ItemsSource="{Binding MenuItems}" 
        SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedItem}" 
        ItemTapped= SET-BINDING-HERE >
  <ListView.ItemTemplate>
    <DataTemplate>
      <ViewCell>
        <ViewCell.View>
          //setup template here
        </ViewCell.View>
      </ViewCell>
    </DataTemplate>
  </ListView.ItemTemplate> 
</ListView>

I want to bind the itemtapped event to this function:

public void NavigateTo(object sender, ItemTappedEventArgs args)
  {
      var test = args.Item as MenuModel;
      cPageTypes.GetByKey(test.CommandParameter)
                .SwitchRootPage(AIMCore.ViewModels.ElliottBaseViewModel.MasterPage);
      list.SelectedItem = null;
      AIMCore.ViewModels.BaseViewModel.MasterPage.IsPresented = false;
  }

I can currently get this to work if I add the function to the view's code behind and then set the ItemTapped='NavigatTo', but this seems wrong as it defeats the MVVM concept. What I really want to do is bind the event this same functionality in my ViewModel something like this:

<ListView x:Name="list"
        ItemsSource="{Binding MenuItems}" 
        SelectedItem="{Binding SelectedItem}" 
        ItemTapped= "{Binding NavigateTo}" > // this binding is to the ViewModel

However this is not working or I am not doing it correctly. When I try implement it this way the code produces and error.

Error: Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.XamlParseException: No Property of name ItemTapped found at Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.BaseValueNode.SetPropertyValue

Answer 1

I've followed the same architecture and done through creating custom list control and created 1 bindable property with command which I've override in my View Model using below code:

Custom Control [.cs] page in my PCL

using System;
using System.Windows.Input;
using Xamarin.Forms;


namespace YourNS {

    public class ListView : Xamarin.Forms.ListView {

        public static BindableProperty ItemClickCommandProperty = BindableProperty.Create<ListView, ICommand>(x => x.ItemClickCommand, null);


        public ListView() {
            this.ItemTapped += this.OnItemTapped;
        }


        public ICommand ItemClickCommand {
            get { return (ICommand)this.GetValue(ItemClickCommandProperty); }
            set { this.SetValue(ItemClickCommandProperty, value); }
        }


        private void OnItemTapped(object sender, ItemTappedEventArgs e) {
            if (e.Item != null && this.ItemClickCommand != null && this.ItemClickCommand.CanExecute(e)) {
                this.ItemClickCommand.Execute(e.Item);
                this.SelectedItem = null;
            }
        }
    }
}

My XAML Page

<ContentPage ...
             xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Samples.Views;assembly=Your Assebly Name">

<local:ListView ItemClickCommand="{Binding Select}" 
        ItemsSource="{Binding List}">

And in my View Model [In this example, I've only opened dialog action sheet

private Command<Signature> selectCmd;
        public Command<Signature> Select {
            get {
                this.selectCmd = this.selectCmd ?? new Command<Signature>(s => 
                    this.dialogs.ActionSheet(new ActionSheetConfig()
                        .Add("View", () => {
                            if (!this.fileViewer.Open(s.FilePath))
                                this.dialogs.Alert(String.Format("Could not open file {0}", s.FileName));
                        })
                        .Add("Cancel")
                    )
                );
                return this.selectCmd;
            }
        }