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Jade
Jade

Reputation: 355

Scale button to text Xamarin Forms

Is there a way to scale a button to it's text or align the text left? I have created a static method that allows me to set a generic theme for my buttons. I know you can use LayoutOptions.Start to make the button go to the left of the page.

public static void DefaultButtonTheme(Button button)
{ 
    //previous code
    .
    .
    button.HorizontalOptions = LayoutOptions.Start;
}

However, for text smaller than a certain amount of letters it is center of the button.

See image below.

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 357

Answers (1)

ganchito55
ganchito55

Reputation: 3607

I have investigated a bit this behaviour and I have found that this error appears on Android but not on UWP. I have also tried to use MinimumWidthRequest="0" without result.

So as Anto Maniscalco said you should create a custom control and then overwrite the Android render using android:minHeight="0dp" as you can see in the following link. It seems that Google decided by default to a minimum size for this control.

I hope this can help you.

Upvotes: 1

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