Following on from Part 1, this post will briefly discuss the Android approach to Fast Renderers. Again there isn’t really any documentation for control builders, but there are examples within the Xamarin Forms source to work from. Xamarin Android like iOS uses an IVisualElementRenderer interface which is very similar to the iOS equivalent. The differences are down to the different platforms approaches. For example the NativeView and ViewController of iOS are represented with the View and ViewGroup properties on Android. ViewGroup can return null, but if the control uses a ViewGroup derived class for laying out controls that can be returned.
There are some additional methods such as SetLabelFor(id) and UpdateLayout(). The first one supports the accessibility system on Android and allows a descriptive label to be added to another control. The latter calls a helper class the VisualElementTracker to help update the layout.
Beyond these things the concept is very much the same and you handle the same kind of interactions with the Element which is the platform agnostic representation of the control and its properties.
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