implementing surfaceview in xamarin forms

Question

I have this app I'm building that requires my camera in a surface View on my app in xamarin forms could someone point me in the right direction or tell me if there's some strong tutorial that could give me a really good insight on it. This is the Camera UI I need to implement

Answer 1

implementing surfaceview in xamarin forms

SurfaceView is not a Android native view, so if you want use it in Xamarin.Forms , you must use CustomRenderers .

Here is an example: Custom Renderer about SurfaceView

This sample demonstrates a custom renderer for a Xamarin.Forms custom control that's used to display a preview video stream from the device's camera.

For more information about this sample see Implementing a View .