SelectedItem Template

[Mano Sadeh]

Hey,

How can we apply a different Template for the selected item?

 

Thanks,

Mano

[Lance | Senior Manager Technical Support]

Hello Mano,

The RadListView provides styles; ItemStyle, SelectedItemStyle and PressedItemStyle. See the following documentation for guidance: Item Styles. You can even use a StyleSelector to choose a different style depending on a predefined condition, see ItemStyle Selector documentation.

If you're referring to having a completely different ItemTemplate, almost no ListView type of object provide different DataTemplate-based properties on the condition of selection. You'll instead need to create a Xamarin.Forms.DataTemplateSelector object and assign it to the RadLstView.ItemTemplateSelector property.  We have a tutorial on how to accomplish this in the following article: ItemTemplateSelector.

Once you've read that tutorial and are famliar with using a DataTemplateSelector, lets move on to the relevancy to changing a template based on selection. 

First, you'll need to sync a model boolean property to your data model if there isn't one yet (make sure you invoke PropertyChanged for this property):

public class Student : NotifyPropertyChangedBase
{
    public string Title { get; set; }

    private bool _isItemSelected;
    public bool IsItemSelected
    {
        get => _isItemSelected;
        set
        {
            if(_isItemSelected == value)
                return;

            _isItemSelected = value;
            OnPropertyChanged();
        }
    }
}

Then, subscribe to the SelectionChanged event of the RadListView and toggle the data item's selected flag accordingly:

private void RadListView_SelectionChanged(object sender, System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.OldItems != null)
    {
        foreach (var item in e.OldItems)
        {
            (item as Student).IsItemSelected = false;
        }
    }

    if (e.NewItems != null)
    {
        foreach (var item in e.NewItems)
        {
            (item as Student).IsItemSelected = true;
        }
    }
}

Finally, in the template selector, you can use this value to return the appropriate DataTemplate:

public class MyItemTemplateSelector : DataTemplateSelector
{
    public DataTemplate RegularTemplate { get; set; }
    public DataTemplate SelectedTemplate { get; set; }

    protected override DataTemplate OnSelectTemplate(object item, BindableObject container)
    {
        if (item is Student student)
        {
            return student.IsItemSelected
                ? SelectedTemplate
                : RegularTemplate;
        }

        return null;
    }
}

Regards,
Lance | Tech Support Engineer, Sr.
Progress Telerik

[Mano Sadeh]

Thanks!

It looks like this code is getting what I need:

 

 protected override DataTemplate OnSelectTemplate(object item, BindableObject container)
        {

            RadListView listView = container as RadListView;

            if (listView == null)
                return RegularTemplate;

            if (listView.SelectionMode == SelectionMode.Single)
                return listView.SelectedItem != null && listView.SelectedItem == item ? SelectedTemplate : RegularTemplate;
            else if (listView.SelectionMode == SelectionMode.Multiple)
                return listView.SelectedItems.Contains(item) ? SelectedTemplate : RegularTemplate;
            else
                return RegularTemplate;

        }