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LayoutOptions.Fill vs LayoutOptions.FillAndExpand
AndrewBilyk
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Can someone explain the difference between LayoutOptions.Fill and LayoutOptions.FillAndExpand? In the tests I've done, they seem to do the same thing. Am I missing something?
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CraigDunn
USXamarin Team Xamurai
It's complicated... if you use one of the
Expandoptions on aStackLayout- and the combined size of its children is less than the height it is allowed
- and at least one of the children also uses one of the
Expandoptions
then those children will get the extra space distributed among them (with
StartAndExpandandEndAndExpandcontrolling where in that additional space the element will appear).But if you just put
FillAndExpandon a single element you're right, the behavior won't look any different.14
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It's complicated... if you use one of the
Expandoptions on aStackLayoutExpandoptionsthen those children will get the extra space distributed among them (with
StartAndExpandandEndAndExpandcontrolling where in that additional space the element will appear).But if you just put
FillAndExpandon a single element you're right, the behavior won't look any different.That clears things up. Thanks, Craig!
Any documentation on this that clarifies best practice for the most used situations?
For anyone else looking for more explanation on this, here is a link to more detail http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25338533/what-is-the-difference-between-xamarin-forms-layoutoptions-especially-fill-and
fill and expand is works for me only in Xamarin forms iOS only its doesn't works for android , why?
I need to expand my editor to be fillandexpand .
@rio_riya - FYI,
FillAndExpandworks well on Android now. (And to anyone who still has problems with this, make sure parent, indeed all ancestors, are eitherFillorFillAndExpand.)