Switch Toggling Event Using MVVM - xamarin.forms

Question

I realized recently that a switch doesn't have a command. And i need to bind the toggling event to my view model. How do i go about it?
I tried to bind the command to Toggled event but the code is running into error

Answer 1

You can use EventToCommandBehavior to convert the event to command
create the EventToCommandBehavior class
using System;
using Xamarin.Forms;
namespace xxx
{
public class BehaviorBase<T> : Behavior<T> where T : BindableObject
{
public T AssociatedObject { get; private set; }
protected override void OnAttachedTo(T bindable)
{
base.OnAttachedTo(bindable);
AssociatedObject = bindable;
if (bindable.BindingContext != null)
{
BindingContext = bindable.BindingContext;
}
bindable.BindingContextChanged += OnBindingContextChanged;
}
protected override void OnDetachingFrom(T bindable)
{
base.OnDetachingFrom(bindable);
bindable.BindingContextChanged -= OnBindingContextChanged;
AssociatedObject = null;
}
void OnBindingContextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
OnBindingContextChanged();
}
protected override void OnBindingContextChanged()
{
base.OnBindingContextChanged();
BindingContext = AssociatedObject.BindingContext;
}
}
}
using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Windows.Input;
using Xamarin.Forms;
namespace xxx
{
public class EventToCommandBehavior : BehaviorBase<View>
{
Delegate eventHandler;
public static readonly BindableProperty EventNameProperty = BindableProperty.Create("EventName", typeof(string), typeof(EventToCommandBehavior), null, propertyChanged: OnEventNameChanged);
public static readonly BindableProperty CommandProperty = BindableProperty.Create("Command", typeof(ICommand), typeof(EventToCommandBehavior), null);
public static readonly BindableProperty CommandParameterProperty = BindableProperty.Create("CommandParameter", typeof(object), typeof(EventToCommandBehavior), null);
public static readonly BindableProperty InputConverterProperty = BindableProperty.Create("Converter", typeof(IValueConverter), typeof(EventToCommandBehavior), null);
public string EventName
{
get { return (string)GetValue(EventNameProperty); }
set { SetValue(EventNameProperty, value); }
}
public ICommand Command
{
get { return (ICommand)GetValue(CommandProperty); }
set { SetValue(CommandProperty, value); }
}
public object CommandParameter
{
get { return GetValue(CommandParameterProperty); }
set { SetValue(CommandParameterProperty, value); }
}
public IValueConverter Converter
{
get { return (IValueConverter)GetValue(InputConverterProperty); }
set { SetValue(InputConverterProperty, value); }
}
protected override void OnAttachedTo(View bindable)
{
base.OnAttachedTo(bindable);
RegisterEvent(EventName);
}
protected override void OnDetachingFrom(View bindable)
{
DeregisterEvent(EventName);
base.OnDetachingFrom(bindable);
}
void RegisterEvent(string name)
{
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name))
{
return;
}
EventInfo eventInfo = AssociatedObject.GetType().GetRuntimeEvent(name);
if (eventInfo == null)
{
throw new ArgumentException(string.Format("EventToCommandBehavior: Can't register the '{0}' event.", EventName));
}
MethodInfo methodInfo = typeof(EventToCommandBehavior).GetTypeInfo().GetDeclaredMethod("OnEvent");
eventHandler = methodInfo.CreateDelegate(eventInfo.EventHandlerType, this);
eventInfo.AddEventHandler(AssociatedObject, eventHandler);
}
void DeregisterEvent(string name)
{
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(name))
{
return;
}
if (eventHandler == null)
{
return;
}
EventInfo eventInfo = AssociatedObject.GetType().GetRuntimeEvent(name);
if (eventInfo == null)
{
throw new ArgumentException(string.Format("EventToCommandBehavior: Can't de-register the '{0}' event.", EventName));
}
eventInfo.RemoveEventHandler(AssociatedObject, eventHandler);
eventHandler = null;
}
void OnEvent(object sender, object eventArgs)
{
if (Command == null)
{
return;
}
object resolvedParameter;
if (CommandParameter != null)
{
resolvedParameter = CommandParameter;
}
else if (Converter != null)
{
resolvedParameter = Converter.Convert(eventArgs, typeof(object), null, null);
}
else
{
resolvedParameter = eventArgs;
}
if (Command.CanExecute(resolvedParameter))
{
Command.Execute(resolvedParameter);
}
}
static void OnEventNameChanged(BindableObject bindable, object oldValue, object newValue)
{
var behavior = (EventToCommandBehavior)bindable;
if (behavior.AssociatedObject == null)
{
return;
}
string oldEventName = (string)oldValue;
string newEventName = (string)newValue;
behavior.DeregisterEvent(oldEventName);
behavior.RegisterEvent(newEventName);
}
}
}
in your xaml
<Switch >
<Switch.Behaviors>
<local:EventToCommandBehavior EventName="Toggled" Command="{Binding ToggledCommand}"/>
</Switch.Behaviors>
</Switch>
And in your ViewModel
public class MyViewModel
{
public ICommand ToggledCommand { get; private set; }
public MyViewModel()
{
ToggledCommand = new Command(() => {
// do some thing you want
});
}
}

Answer 2

I bind a bool property on my viewmodel to the IsToggled property on the switch, then handle when this changes in the viewmodel.