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Xamarin.Forms: How to properly use <OnPlatform> to pick which control to use in my TableSection?

I have a TableView with few sections. In my TableSection I want to display different controls depending on the platform. I want to use the usual TextCell for iOS and a custom ViewCell for Android. I have tried the following code:

<TableSection Title="Activity">
   <OnPlatform x:TypeArguments="View">
      <On Platform="iOS">
         <TextCell x:Name="btnCountIOS" Text="Count" Height="50" />
         <TextCell x:Name="cardHistory" Text="History" StyleId="disclosure" Tapped="openHistoryPage" Height="50"/>
      </On>
      <On Platform="Android">
         <local:MyViewCell NoTap="true" Height="50">
            <Grid VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand" Padding="20, 0">
               <Label Style="{DynamicResource ListItemTextStyle}" HorizontalOptions="StartAndExpand" VerticalOptions="Center" Text="Today" />
               <Label Style="{DynamicResource ListItemTextStyle}" TextColor="Gray" HorizontalOptions="End" x:Name="btnCountDroid" />
            </Grid>
         </local:MyViewCell>
         <local:MyViewCell>
            <!-- more code here -->
         </local:MyViewCell>
      </On>
   </OnPlatform>
</TableSection>

The above code does not work. It gives me an error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Am I missing something? Should I be using a different x:TypeArguments?

Edit:

Edited to incorporate @Fahadsk answer and now getting the error: System.ArrayTypeMismatchException: Attempted to access an element as a type incompatible with the array. Anyone knows why I'm getting this?

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iamsophia Avatar asked Feb 12 '18 07:02

iamsophia


1 Answers

OnPlatform is obsolete as of version 2.3.4.

Use following syntax in your code

<OnPlatform x:TypeArguments="Thickness">
     <On Platform="Android" Value="0, 0, 0, 0"/>
     <On Platform="iOS" Value="0, 20, 0, 0"/>
</OnPlatform>

For more info on this and this pull request, also check out this blog

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Fahadsk Avatar answered Jan 02 '23 05:01

Fahadsk