Custom RecyclerView for Forms

Question

I'm having an issue when displaying a large number of visual elements in a scroll viewer, and I've tried every possible way to achieve the same approach, either with 3rd party horizontal list views (Can't find one with variable column/element width) or with rotated native list view (gives weird results).

The only approach that gives the result is via stacklayout docked in scrollviewer where I populate that stacklayout from code. Now the problem is all elements are rendered even if they were not displayed, so it makes the application either very slow.

I thought about having a recyclerview (which exists in native android) but I can't find an approach for it forms as it only exists in android. Now can anyone help me with that? Maybe a custom view where it uses recycler view on android and any similar approach or maybe a regular scrollviewer on iOS ?

Thanks in advance.

Update #1

I could do the rotated listview option using this code -Inspired by this answer-

<RelativeLayout>
    <ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Entries}" Rotation="-90" HasUnevenRows="True"
              RelativeLayout.XConstraint="{ConstraintExpression Type=RelativeToParent, Property=Width, Factor=0.5, Constant=-37}"
              RelativeLayout.YConstraint="{ConstraintExpression Type=RelativeToParent, Property=Width, Factor=-0.5, Constant=37}"
              RelativeLayout.WidthConstraint="{ConstraintExpression Type=RelativeToParent, Property=Height, Factor=1}"
              RelativeLayout.HeightConstraint="{ConstraintExpression Type=RelativeToParent, Property=Width, Factor=1}">

        <ListView.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate>
                <ViewCell>
                    <BoxView Rotation="90" BackgroundColor="Beige" WidthRequest="200"/>
                </ViewCell>
            </DataTemplate>
        </ListView.ItemTemplate>
    </ListView>
</RelativeLayout>

But I can never make this box view fill the while cell, there is always empty space -The box view is a place holder instead of other custom control-.

Is there a method to make the box view always fill the whole cell height and fill and expand it to it's WidthRequest property -Which will be dynamic according to a binding later- ?

Answer 1

I have found a workaround for such an issue by using a listview with custom template, where I inside of it I used several scrollviews and linked their movement together. Refer to my answer here: How to make multiple list views scroll together?