Xamarin Forms - XLabs CustomRadioButton : ItemsSource

Question

I'm currently using the CustomRadioButton component from XLabs. I learned from the sample that you can set the text from the radio buttons by giving a string array to the ItemsSource property of the BindableRadioGroup.

Example :

BindableRadioGroup buttonGroup = new BindableRadioGroup();
ansPicker.ItemsSource = new[]
        {
            "Red",
            "Blue",
            "Green",
            "Yellow",
            "Orange"
        };

Now, I would like to now if it is possible to do the same thing with an object.

Example :

public class Person {
    private string name;
    private int age;
}

If I have a List of this Person object, can I give it directly to the ItemsSource property of the BindableRadioGroup? How do I define which attribute will be display on the CustomRadioButton?

I found this method for a ListView but in my case, I can't find the ItemTemplate property for the BindableRadioGroup :

var template = new DataTemplate (typeof (TextCell));
// We can set data bindings to our supplied objects.
  template.SetBinding (TextCell.TextProperty, "FullName");
  template.SetBinding (TextCell.DetailProperty, "Address");

  itemsView.ItemTemplate = template;
  itemsView.ItemsSource = new[] {
    new Person { FullName = "James Smith", Address = "404 Nowhere Street" },
    new Person { FullName = "John Doe", Address = "404 Nowhere Ave" }
  };

Thanks.

Answer 1

BindableRadioGroup is actually derived from a StackLayout so I don't think you're going to be able to use a DataTemplate.

Without having tested this you could try two things. Looking at the code, Text is set to Item.ToString()in OnItemsSourceChanged. You could define to a ToString() for your person object.

Alternatively you could handle the creation of each CustomRadioButton yourself, binding each property such as Checked and Text and manually add each CustomRadioButton to your BindableRadioGroupobject.