[Enhancement] Ability to set BackgroundColor for ViewCell

[pfedotovsky]

It would be nice to have BackgroundColor property on ViewCell.

E.g. when using TableView, section headers and items both have the same background color on Android, making them difficult to distinguish.

There's open source project xfgloss that adds missing properties, but it currently has an issue with Android: tbaggett/xfgloss#29

It would be nice to have this functionality out of the box.

[seanyda]

Do you mean to add a BackgroundColor property to TextCell, SwitchCell etc? You would just add the BackgroundColor to the View assigned on the ViewCell.

[pfedotovsky]

@seanyda yes, I mean adding BackgroundColor to TextCell, SwitchCell, etc. I thought that adding the property to ViewCell automatically adds it to all kind of cells, but now I realized that TextCell doesn't inherit from ViewCell. So probably the right class to extend with BackgroundColor is Cell.

Supporting all kinds of cells would be nice, but if it's difficult to do for all cells at once, TextCell would be an excellent place to start.

[seanyda]

There is a method you can override (which I assume is what XFGloss uses) called SetBackgroundColor which comes from the CellRenderer class. It would be nice to have it as a property in forms though.

[jsclay]

Any update on this issue? Thanks!

[jfversluis]

Hey look at that! I made a PR for this one, looooong time ago! ANyway, this won't be happening for Forms anymore :)

Thanks for all your time and effort on this everyone!