Xamarin Forms: access the stacklayout in IOS renderer & add native controls inside it

Question

Is there a way we can access the Forms Layout (Grid, StackLayout, Frame etc designed in Forms using XAML) on an IOS renderer & add a native control inside it (Say add a Native UIImageView)?

I understand that we can write a custom renderer for the Image View & then change its source in IOS native renderer, but in our case we need to create an entire page renderer.

To keep you in context, we are trying to create a XAML based page in forms & create a Page Renderer in IOS for this, so we have access to all controls of this forms page in renderer. Now we need to create a native control (Camera Streaming in fact but let’s consider a simple UIImageView to keep things simple) & add it inside the layout (Grid, Stacklayout, Frame etc) that we created in Forms using XAML on this page..

Any ideas how this can be done?

You'll need to write your own custom renderers based on the ones that come with XF and modify their implementation — Sten Petrov
I understand Sten, infect we do have our own page renderer. We are stuck at converting the Forms.Frame to its native view counterpart & then add more native controls inside of it. — Supreet
Can you share your renderer code? There's a Control property (if I remember correctly) which you can cast to your actual native type and add children to it — Sten Petrov
Ive run into a similar problem. there dosnt seem to be a StackLayoutRenderer you can inherit from — Ewan

Mohammad Riyaz Mohammad Riyaz · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-04T18:20:41

I have listed almost every renderer related native control in xamarin forms following image contains few renderers that may help in your way.

Renderer Image

@supreet: You can find your suitable more custom renderer Here

Good Luck

Xamarin Forms: access the stacklayout in IOS renderer & add native controls inside it

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