Forms9Patch 1.5.0.6

Xamarin Forms is great for developing apps on Android, iOS, and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) but it is missing some important features:
•Scalable images
•NetStandard, PCL and Shared Library, multi-screen / multi-resolution image management
•HTML formatted text for labels and buttons
•NetStandard, PCL and Shared Library custom font management
•Hardware keyboard key detection
•On-Screen software keyboard height change events
•Support for multiple items of the same MIME type on the clipboard
•Support for inter-app Data Sharing

Android developers can use NinePatch bitmaps, the drawable directory naming convention, Html.FromHtml, and a bunch of complex file manipulations to address the image issue.  Likewise, iOS developers can use ResizeableImageWithCapInsets, the @2x, @3x, @4x file naming convention, and some 3rd party libraries for this purpose.  Forms9Patch enhances Xamarin Forms to make multi-resolution / multi-screen image management, custom fonts, and HTML text formatting easy for NetStandard, PCL, and Shared Libary apps for iOS,  Android and UWP

Install-Package Forms9Patch -Version 1.5.0.6

dotnet add package Forms9Patch --version 1.5.0.6

<PackageReference Include="Forms9Patch" Version="1.5.0.6" />

paket add Forms9Patch --version 1.5.0.6

Release Notes

1.5.0: Refactored layout engine to SkiaSharp.Views.Forms to eliminate device specific issues; Refactored popups to use Rg.Plugins.Popup to eliminate the need for RootPage and addresse failure to render popups in modal pages in iOS; Fixed issues with Label vertical alignment in iOS; Fixed: (Android) failure to detect gestures when element is embedded inside of another element that is monitoring gestures;
1.4.1: Fixed: Clipboard, DataSharing and HardwareKeyListener UWP dependencies not registered.
1.4.0: New: Clipboard supports multiple objects of same Mime type, Inter-app Data Sharing; Fixed: HardwareKeyboardListener crashes in some UWP implementations, Popups crashes in Android implementations when instantiated before Forms9Patch.RootPage is instantiated;  Eliminated need for Android "forms9patch_copy_paste_authority" string.

Dependencies

• All Frameworks

  • Newtonsoft.Json (>= 11.0.2)
  • Rg.Plugins.Popup (>= 1.1.4.168)
  • SkiaSharp.Svg (>= 1.60.0)
  • SkiaSharp.Views.Forms (>= 1.60.0)
  • Xamarin.Forms (>= 2.5.0.280555)

• UAP 10.0

  • Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform (>= 6.0.1)
  • Newtonsoft.Json (>= 11.0.2)
  • Rg.Plugins.Popup (>= 1.1.4.168)
  • SharpDX.Direct2D1 (>= 4.0.1)
  • SkiaSharp.Svg (>= 1.60.0)
  • SkiaSharp.Views.Forms (>= 1.60.0)
  • Xamarin.Forms (>= 2.5.0.280555)

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