jberney22 / buttoncircleplugin

Circle Buttons with icon for your Xamarin.Forms Applications

Button Circle Control Plugin for Xamarin.Forms

Simple but elegant way of display circle buttons with an icon in your Xamarin.Forms projects.

Setup

• Available on NuGet: Plugins.Forms.ButtonCircle
• Install into your PCL or .NET Standard project and Client projects.

Android

In your Android project call:

ButtonCircleRenderer.Init();

iOS

In your iOS project call:

ButtonCircleRenderer.Init();

And add this key in your Info.plist

<key>UIAppFonts</key>
    <array>
      <string>materialicons.ttf</string>
      <string>fontawesome.ttf</string>
    </array>

UWP

In your UWP project add materialicons.ttf and fontawesome.ttf files to:

Assets/Fonts

You can download this file here:

Material Design icons

FontAwesome

Also call Init method:

ButtonCircleRenderer.Init();

You must do this AFTER you call Xamarin.Forms.Init();

Note: On UWP, the button's fill color on hover will be a lighter shade of the background color set on the CircleButton, unless it is transparent (which will be the assumed default if no BackgroundColor is explicitly set) in which case the BorderColor will be used.

Platform Support

Platform	Supported	Version
Xamarin.iOS	Yes	iOS 7+
Xamarin.Android	Yes	API 14+
Windows Phone Silverlight	No
Windows Phone RT	No
Windows Store RT	Yes(beta)	8.1+
Windows 10 UWP	Yes (beta)	Build 105086+
Xamarin.Mac	No

List of icons

You can see name of icons for FontAwesome here and for Material design icon here

Usage

Instead of using an Button simply use a CircleButton instead!

You MUST set the width & height requests to the same value. Here is a sample:

new ButtonImage
{
  BorderColor = Color.Black,
  BorderThickness = 5,
  HeightRequest = 150,
  WidthRequest = 150,
  HorizontalOptions = LayoutOptions.Center,
  FontIcon = Fonts.Material
  Icon = "md-add"
}

XAML:

First add the xmlns namespace:

xmlns:local="clr-namespace:ButtonCircle.FormsPlugin.Abstractions;assembly=ButtonCircle.FormsPlugin.Abstractions"

Then add the xaml:

<local:CircleButton 
        FontIcon="Material"
        Icon="md-directions-bike" 
        FontSize="30" TextColor="Black" 
        HeightRequest="70" WidthRequest="70" 
        BorderThickness="5" BorderColor="Black" 
        BackgroundColor="#DCDCDC">
</local:CircleButton>

If you see the replacement character (�) appear instead of the desired icon, make sure that you have followed the setup instructions above and that you have supplied the correct text key for the "Icon" property.

License

Licensed under MIT, see license file