AppAction's Icon not showing

Question

Hi,

I have started using AppAction in my Xamarin Form and it's working fine except the icon which is just showing as a black circle.

i have also noticed the same is here:

https://almirvuk.com/add-custom-actions-to-your-app-with-xamarin-essentials/

although he set the icons

So how can I show the icon from my resources?

I tried Logo and Logo.png but none worked.

Kindly help.

Thanks,
Jassim

Answer 1

Hello,​

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I set the icon in the App.xaml.cs of Xamarin.Forms. Just with icon's name like following code

   protected override async void OnStart()  
           {  
               try  
               {  
                   await AppActions.SetAsync(  
                       new AppAction("app_info", title: "Add new note", icon: "hamburger"),  
                       new AppAction("Favourites", title: "View favourites", icon: "plus"));  
               }  
               catch (FeatureNotSupportedException ex)  
               {  
                   // Log error and handle this Exception properly  
               }  
           }  

For Android, I put the image to drawable folder like following screenshot.

Here is running screenshot.

For iOS, I put the image to Assets like following screenshot.

Here is running screenshot.

But the hamburger icon do not show correctly. Based on my research, AppAction's the Icon achieved by UIApplicationShortcutIcon in the iOS., UIApplicationShortcutIcon has a limitation In the Apple's article, so when we set colorful icon, It only shows an outline with black background. It is by design.

Icons should be square, single color, and 35x35 points, as shown in these template files and as described in Template Images in UIKit User Interface Catalog and in iOS Human Interface Guidelines.

Best Regards,

Leon Lu

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