I have some basic drag-and-drop controls I created for a Xamarin.Forms project and I'm thinking of using them as a basis for a suite of drag-and-drop controls to be made available via nuget and/or the component store.
If anyone has any ideas for the kinds of features you would like to see, please post them here. I'm also interested to know whether (and how much) people would be willing to pay for such a component on the component store? I would love to keep it free, but if I can monetize it somehow, I'll be able to spend more time on making it awesome!
I currently only have iOS renderers, but will extend to other platforms if there is demand for it.
Some of the features it currently supports (or will support very soon):
- DraggableView (subclass of ContentView) which adds the ability to drag a ContentView around
- DragDropContainer control which represents an area that items can be dragged out of or dragged into, and raises events which allow you to respond to dragging out, over, into, and dropping into.
- FlowLayout - similar to a horizontal stack layout, but with support for automatically wrapping controls to the next line, with support for re-ordering child items by dragging and dropping.
- Animated moving to new (or back to original position) when dropping the DraggableView.
- Enable/disable dragging on a DraggableView or a whole DragDropContainer
- An image representing the item being dragged will render above all other controls on the screen.
- Ability to customize the drag image (e.g. add transparency, shadow effects, tint, or use a completely different image)
Thanks for your ideas and comments
Matt @ Digital Nomad Apps