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Ryan Buening
Ryan Buening

Reputation: 1660

Xamarin Forms ShellContent Open Browser

I'm using Xamarin Forms Shell. On one of my <ShellContent> items in my <TabBar>, I just want to open a browser that navigates to a certain URL. I don't have a need to set the ContentTemplate.

It appears that with the <MenuItem> you can set a Command but I don't have the ability to use MenuItem in <TabBar>. Any ideas on how I could achieve this with ShellContent?

<ShellContent
    Title="Open Browser"
    Icon="browser.png"
    Style="{StaticResource DefaultShell}"
    ???=??? />

Upvotes: 0

Views: 598

Answers (1)

nevermore
nevermore

Reputation: 15816

You can't use MenuItem in Tabbar. Menuitem can be optionally added to the flyout instead of Tabbar.

I just want to open a browser that navigates to a certain URL.

You still need to set the ContentTemplate with a Page :

<Tab Title="browser" Icon="browser.png">
    <ShellContent ContentTemplate="{DataTemplate local:BrowserPage}"/>
</Tab>

Then in that page, navigates to a certain URL:

public BrowserPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();

    Launcher.OpenAsync("https://www.xamarin.com");
}

Or use a WebView to load the url:

<ContentPage.Content>
    <StackLayout>
        <WebView HeightRequest="1000" WidthRequest="1000" Source="https://www.xamarin.com"/>
    </StackLayout>
</ContentPage.Content>

I uploaded my sample project here and you can check.

Upvotes: 2

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