Exporting in Xamarin Circular Gauge (SfCircularGauge)

8 Jan 20251 minute to read

Export as an image

You can export the circular gauge as an image using SaveAsImage method of SfCircularGauge.

SfCircularGauge circularGauge = new SfCircularGauge();
...

circularGauge.SaveAsImage("circularGauge.jpg");

The exported image will be saved in the different location across the platforms.

Android – The image will be saved inside the Pictures directory.

iOS – The image will be saved inside the “Photos/Album” directory.

UWP – The image will be saved inside the “/Pictures/Saved Pictures” directory.

NOTE

In order to save the image, you have to enable the permission to write the file in device storage.

Get the stream of SfCircularGauge

The GetStream method is used to get the circular gauge as stream asynchronously. The output stream can be passed as an input of any other components which accept the stream such as pdf, image etc.

SfCircularGauge circularGauge = new SfCircularGauge();
...

var stream = await circularGauge.GetStream();