MarkdownView for Xamarin.Forms

A native Xamarin.Forms Markdown renderer.

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Introduction

Compared to a majority of solutions, MarkdownView will render every component as a native Xamarin.Forms view instead of via an HTML backend. The Markdown is directly translated from a syntax tree to a hierarchy of Xamarin.Forms views, : no HTML is being produced at all (hurray)!

This will produce a more reactive user interface, at the cost of rendering functionalities (at the moment though!).

Install

Available on NuGet.

Quickstart

var view = new MarkdownView();
view.Markdown = "# Hello world\n\nThis is my first native markdown rendering";
view.Theme = new DarkMarkdownTheme(); // Default is white, you also modify various values
this.Content = view;

Limitations

Unfortunately, Xamarin.Forms string rendering has some limitations ...

• Inlined images aren't supported (Xamarin.Forms formatted strings doesn't support inlined views) : They will be displayed after the block they are referenced from.
• Links are only clickable at a leaf block level (Xamarin.Forms formatted strings doesn't support span user interactions) : if a leaf block contains more than one link, the user is prompted. This is almost a feature since text may be too small to be enough precise! ;)
• SVG rendering is very limited (The SVG rendering is based on SkiaSharp which doesn't seem to manage well all svg renderings)

Roadmap

• Customization
  • Styles
  • Themes
• Leaf blocks
  • Headings
  • Paragraphs
  • HTML Blocks (maybe partial and specific support)
  • Link reference definitions
  • Code blocks
  • Thematic breaks
• Container blocks
  • Block quote
  • Lists
    • Numbers bullet formats
    • Custom bullets
• Inlines
  • Textual content
  • Emphasis and string emphasis
  • Code spans
  • Links (partial, no interaction)
  • Image blocks (partial, not inlined)
    • SVG Rendering (Skia)
• Extensions
  • Table blocks
  • Emojis (ascii)
  • Task lists

Thanks

• lunet-io/markdig : used for Markdown parsing
• mono/SkiaSharp : used for SVG rendering

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! If you find a bug please report it and if you want a feature please report it.

If you want to contribute code please file an issue and create a branch off of the current dev branch and file a pull request.

License

MIT © Aloïs Deniel