Slider vs SeekBar on Xamarin.Android in Visual Studio 2022

Nathan Sokalski 4,106 Reputation points
2024-09-28T15:41:07.3533333+00:00

I am working on adding a Slider or SeekBar to a Xamarin.Android app. There are 2 scenarios in which I will be using this. The first one is just a simple standard select a value from x to y scenario. The second scenario is more unique, although I have seen it used (whether it was designed using a Slider, SeekBar or maybe something else altogether). It is what I would call an "Infinite Slider", which is a slider that allows the user to select any value from -infinity to +infinity by sliding the background rather than the thumb, so the thumb would always be in the center of the slider. I don't know if there is a View/control with this functionality built in or whether I would have make a custom View (possibly by inheriting from Slider or SeekBar), although it would require overriding so many properties & events that it might sometimes be better to just completely design it myself. But here are some of my main questions:

  1. Is SeekBar or com.google.android.material.slider.Slider usually better? SeekBar shows up better in the Designer while the Slider does not, but maybe that is just something I need to change.
  2. Do either of these have the "Infinite Slider" capability I mention above?
  3. Are there any significant differences that would affect the general usage?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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  1. Liqun Shen (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) 235 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2024-09-30T07:02:03.9533333+00:00

    Xamarin support ended on May 1, 2024 for all Xamarin SDKs including Xamarin.Forms. For more information, please check: Xamarin official support policy | .NET (microsoft.com). We will recommend you upgrade Xamarin projects to . NET MAUI, please see the Upgrade Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Mac projects to .NET documentation.

     

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