TextCellRenderer in Xamarin.UWP

Question

How could we set TextCell height with padding/margin in Windows Universal Project using Xamarin.Forms?

I tried following Custom renderer in Native project:

class CustomTextCellRenderer : TextCellRenderer
{
    public override Windows.UI.Xaml.DataTemplate GetTemplate(Cell cell)
    {
        var d = base.GetTemplate(cell);
        //Set something here???
        return d;
    }
}

but couldn't find any property to be set.

There is function to set dependency property of DataTemplate but I coudn't figure it out, what will be the dependency property name for height to set?

d.SetValue(???DependencyProperty???, value);

Answer 1

Since the TextCell is a built in cell, it's optimized and designed to be used as is. However you can create a custom DataTemplate based on the TextCell template and return that instead.

You can find the original template in the Xamarin.Forms source . Then in the UWP platform project's App.xaml , define your new DataTemplate inside the ResourceDictionary with a different key:

<DataTemplate x:Key="MyTextCell">
    <StackPanel Background="Aqua">
        <TextBlock
            Padding="0 10 0 10"
            Margin="5"
            Text="{Binding Text}"
            Style="{ThemeResource BaseTextBlockStyle}" />

        <TextBlock
            Text="{Binding Detail}"
            Style="{ThemeResource BodyTextBlockStyle}"
            x:Name="detail"/>
    </StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>

and access it inside the custom renderer with:

return App.Current.Resources["MyTextCell"] as Windows.UI.Xaml.DataTemplate;