Xamarin.Forms 3.6 breaking carouselview? - xamarin.forms

Question

Xamarin.Forms 3.6 has included the CarouselView, so I cant use the nuget package anymore, but shipped version seems to be lacking some features, more specifically indicators seems to be missing entirely?
Here is my old code, which does not compile anymore:
// Create the carousel
_carouselView = new CarouselView()
{
VerticalOptions = LayoutOptions.FillAndExpand,
HorizontalOptions = LayoutOptions.FillAndExpand,
};
_carouselView.ItemTemplate = template;
_carouselView.SetBinding(ItemsView.ItemsSourceProperty, nameof(_viewModel.CarouselItems));
_carouselView.SetBinding(CarouselView.PositionProperty, nameof(_viewModel.Position));
// Create page-indicator
var indicator = new CarouselIndicators { ItemsSource = _viewModel.CarouselItems };
indicator.Margin = new Thickness(20, 20, 20, 0);
indicator.SetBinding(CarouselIndicators.PositionProperty, nameof(_viewModel.Position));
CarouselView.Position and CarouselIndicators are not there in 3.6 :( Do I need to implement indicators manually in 3.6?

Answer 1

As Xamarin.Forms 3.6 includes an implementation of CarouselView, if you upgrade from using Xamarin.Forms<3.6 and Xamarin.Forms.CarouselView to Xamarin.Forms 3.6 it is going to break. Because
the Xamarin.Forms.CarouselView nuget package is deprecated and hasn't been updated for 2 years
by having Xamarin.Forms 3.6 and Xamarin.Forms.CarouselView in parallel you will have a naming conflict between the 2 CarouselView elements
the Xamarin.Forms.CarouselView implementation in Xamarin.Forms 3.6 doesn't contain a Position property
A lot of projects switched to a community implementation of CarouselViews :
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/106176/carouselview-position-problem
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/129883/i-am-unable-to-set-the-particular-page-in-carousel-view
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/132858/carouselview-state-of-the-union
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/141384/how-to-implement-a-simple-carouselview
Solution for you would be :
Remove Xamarin.Forms.CarouselView
Add https://github.com/AndreiMisiukevich/CardView (CardsView nuget package)
Upgrade Xamarin.Forms to 3.6
Change
_carouselView.SetBinding(CarouselView.PositionProperty, nameof(_viewModel.Position));
to
_carouselView.SetBinding(CardsView.SelectedIndexProperty, nameof(_viewModel.Position));