Design Time Data for RecyclerView

Question

I am working on my first Xamarin.Android app, which includes a RecyclerView. I have most of the RecyclerView working, but I cannot find a way to use any kind of design time data. Most controls that displayed collections in Xamarin.Forms & UWP used an ItemsSource property, but RecyclerView's way of doing things seems to involve more codebehind. Even though the XML file used in the Adapter is useful for designing the individual items, it still does not let you seen how they look in the app without doing a debug. Is there a way to apply design time data to RecyclerView?

Answer 1

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Hi,njsokalski. The VS doesn't provide the layout preview function for a list's items in Xamarin.Android. If you want to get what the item will be like when debugging, you could check the preview of item view layout file which is used to inflate the items for the recyclerView in data Adapter class.

   public class CustomDataAdapter : RecyclerView.Adapter  
   {  
       ...  
       public override RecyclerView.ViewHolder OnCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType)  
       {  
           View itemView = LayoutInflater.From(parent.Context).Inflate(Resource.Layout.itemView, parent, false);  
           ...  
       }  
   }  

Best Regards,

Jarvan Zhang

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