Xamarin.Forms.Maps - How to fire pin click event programmatically - Pin.SendMarkerClick Method

Question

I have a list of map locations when I click one of them I want to zoom to the point on the map and fire a tap event so the pin located there opens its info window. I can zoom to the location on the map without an issue but I can not get the pin to click programmatically. I found the Pin.SendMarkerClick() Method but it appears to not do anything and not be implemented. Does anyone know how I can fire a pin click event without using a custom render? I don't want to have to deal with all the extra overhead of making a custom render for iOS and Android.

using System.ComponentModel;
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[EditorBrowsable (EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
public bool SendMarkerClick ();

Answer 1

Hello,

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You can use Map_PinClicked to handle the PinClick event, If you set e.Handled = true, then Pin selection doesn't work automatically. All pin selection operations are delegated to you.

In the Page:

 map.PinClicked += Map_PinClicked;  

// Selected Pin changed  
map.SelectedPinChanged += SelectedPin_Changed;  

map.InfoWindowClicked += InfoWindow_Clicked;  

map.InfoWindowLongClicked += InfoWindow_LongClicked;  

And then clickEvent:

void Map_PinClicked(object sender, PinClickedEventArgs e)  
    {  
        e.Handled = true;  
  
        uri = new Uri("http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=" + position.Latitude + "," + position.Longitude);  
        Device.OpenUri(uri);  
  
    }  

You can have a look at here for more information.

Best Regards,

Jessie Zhang

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