Empty view not showing .net maui

Question

I have a collection for achievements but the list starts off empty, so I wanted to add an emptyview, but for some reason it won't show on Android.
On Windows it works just fine.
is there any way I can fix this?

Answer 1

Hello @Mielesplayz ,

I tested on Android, iOS and Windows, it doesn't work on Android . When data is not available, you can display a string but not views.

<CollectionView ItemsSource="{Binding EmptyMonkeys}"  
                EmptyView="No items to display" />  

There is a known issue reported at GitHub- Collection View Header and Empty View not showing on Android #8934, you could follow the progress.

If you want to display an empty view, you have to create a custom control using handlers in MAUI. The native Android control for CollectionView is RecyclerView, you could try to add an empty view to the RecyclerView.

Best Regards,
Wenyan Zhang

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