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Cancel ItemSelected Event in TabbarRenderer Xamarin.iOS

DavePilks_zaDavePilks_za USMember ✭✭
in Xamarin.Forms

I have a custom tabbar renderer for iOS in a Xamarin.Forms app. In certain cases, I need to stop the ItemSelected event. Essentially, if the user taps the item on the tabbar, I need to perform a custom action and NOT navigate.

It seems that the ItemSelectedevent is too late to do this. I know that there is a ShouldShowViewController method on the UITabbarController, but this has been abstracted away but the TabbarRenderer.

How can I achieve this?

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  • ColeXColeX Member, Xamarin Team Xamurai
    edited November 2018 
    [assembly:ExportRenderer(typeof(TabbedPage),typeof(MyTabRenderer))]
namespace FormsApp.iOS
{
    class MyTabRenderer : TabbedRenderer
    {public override void ViewDidLoad()
        {
            base.ViewDidLoad();

            this.ShouldSelectViewController += (tabBarController, viewController) =>
            {
                //perform a custom action
                return false;
            };
        }
    }
}
  • LuizNegriniLuizNegrini USMember ✭✭

    @ColeX can we make this on Xamarin.Forms??

  • JGoldbergerJGoldberger USMember, Forum Administrator, Xamarin Team, University Xamurai
    edited October 2019

    That is Xamarin.Forms. This is the same thing as I showed you on stack overflow, just where it is is different, IOW I had you do:

    public class MainTabbedPageRenderer : TabbedRenderer
{
    protected override void OnElementChanged(VisualElementChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnElementChanged(e);

        if (e.NewElement != null)
          this.ShouldSelectViewController = ShouldSelectViewControllerHandler;
    }

    bool ShouldSelectViewControllerHandler(UITabBarController tabBarController, UIViewController viewController)
    {
        return false;
    }
}

    End result is identical though.

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