Things are progressing with the Xamarin Forms Pull Request but it’s a big change and I’ve had feedback on how quickly (or not) it’s going. For this reason I’ve decided to post an update to InTheHand.Forms to port some of the advances and compile for Xamarin Forms 4.0. The new release is marked as a pre-release to avoid anyone automatically updating at this stage and hitting problems because there are a few API changes to ease the transition to the future official version.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/InTheHand.Forms/2.0.2019.613-pre
It takes advantage of fast renderers on iOS and Android and has a cleaner communication method between the control and the renderers. I haven’t changed the Source property which is still based on UWP style Uris for special file locations. I haven’t added a WPF renderer even though the Xamarin Forms version will have this (minus some missing platform functionality like HTTPS and overlaid media playback controls). There are some improvements to the API including a Volume property. The original PCL library is removed along with Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone platforms. I will probably continue to use this package as a method to test other renderers (e.g. Mac and Tizen) before embarking on another Pull Request to Xamarin Forms.
I think the plan with the Xamarin Forms pull request was to integrate in 4.1 but it hasn’t progressed into the current preview releases. I’ll keep you posted as I know more.
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