Getting Started with Xamarin.iOS SfNumericTextBox

17 Jan 20251 minute to read

This section explains you the steps to configure a numeric textbox control in a real-time scenario and also provides a walk-through on some of the customization features available in numeric textbox control.

Reference Essential Studio^® Components in your Solution

After installing Essential Studio^® for Xamarin, you can find all the required assemblies in the installation folders, typically:

{Syncfusion Installed location}\Essential Studio{version number}\lib

NOTE

Assemblies are available in unzipped package location in Mac

and below assembly reference to the iOS unified project.

iOS-unifed\Syncfusion.SfNumericTextBox.iOS.dll

Add SfNumericTextBox

• Adding namespace for the added assemblies.

• C#

[C#]
  
using Syncfusion.SfNumericTextBox.iOS;

• Now add the SfNumericTextBox control with a required optimal name by using the included namespace.

• C#

[C#]
  
SfNumericTextBox numericTextBox = new SfNumericTextBox()
{
	Frame = new CGRect(10, 50, 350, 40),
};
  
this.Add(numericTextBox);

Enable Parsing Mode

SfNumericTextBox provides option to display the value in double or decimal. Following code shows the Decimal parsing mode which can be set through ParserMode property.

C#

[C#]

numericTextBox.ParserMode = SFNumericTextBoxParsers.Decimal;

Configuring properties

Format string, value and maximum number of decimal digits can be customized in SfNumericTextBox as below.

C#

[C#]

SfNumericTextBox numericTextBox = new SfNumericTextBox()
{
	Value = 1000,
	Watermark = "Principal Amount",
	MaximumNumberDecimalDigits = 2,
	FormatString = "c",
	AllowNull = true,
	CultureInfo = new NSLocale("en_us"),
	PercentDisplayMode = SFNumericTextBoxPercentDisplayMode.Compute
};

You can find the complete getting started sample from this link.