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Aryan M
Aryan M

Reputation: 657

How to inspect the UI for xamarin forms

During the xamarin forms development, how to verify if a control is occupying certain pixels in the screen.

(i.e) Like we verify for a web page by going through the developer tools of a browser of the styles each of the element occupies.

Is this possible with Xamarin emulator? To verify if the UI is coming up as expected on the emulator?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2545

Answers (1)

Paul Kertscher
Paul Kertscher

Reputation: 9713

There is the Xamarin Inspector if you can afford a Visual Studio Enterprise subscription.

If you can't afford this (about 6000 $ p.a. is quite something), you could use the Appium Inspector (see here). It's very generic and hence not optimized for Xamarin Forms, but it might do the trick, if you're on a budget.

It allows you to inspect the UI elements and verify that they take the space they should. This is approximately how it looks (I think it's an older version):

Appium Inspector

Anyway, it's somewhat tricky to set up, but if you have set it up, you can use it to run UI-tests, too (that's what it's usually used for).

Bonus: The lowest key variant to verify that your controls take the space they should is simply setting their background color and visually inspect your layout.

Upvotes: 2

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