📝	This is a MAUI version of my Xamarin NuGet

Maui.StateButton

With this control you are able to create any style of button. This is possible as it acts as a wrapper to your XAML and provides you the events/ commands and properties to bind too.

It's also 100% accessible with each platform seeing/ treating the control as a native button.

Check out the examples, for a bunch of different designs -

How to use it?

Install the NuGet package into your shared project project

Install-Package IeuanWalker.Maui.StateButton

Then in the MauiProgram.cs, and the StateButton configuration method -

using IeuanWalker.Maui.StateButton;

builder
	.UseMauiApp<App>()
	.UseStateButton();

What can I do with it?

Properties

Property	What it does	Extra info
State	This changes based on the button state. i.e. Pressed, NotPressed	Default state is NotPressed The binding mode is OneWayToSource so it can only be controlled via this control.

Events

Event	What it does
Clicked	Triggerd when the button is pressed and released
Pressed	Triggerd when the button is pressed. Not triggered when using screenreader or keyboard navigation
Released	Triggerd when the button is released. Not triggered when using screenreader or keyboard navigation

Commands

Command	What it does
ClickedCommand	Triggerd when the button is pressed and released
PressedCommand	Triggerd when the button is pressed. Not triggered when using screenreader or keyboard navigation
ReleasedCommand	Triggerd when the button is released. Not triggered when using screenreader or keyboard navigation

How to style the button for different states

Simply add a Trigger to any element and bind it to the State property of the button -

<stateButton:StateButton Padding="20,10" BackgroundColor="Red">
    <stateButton:StateButton.StrokeShape>
        <RoundRectangle CornerRadius="10" />
    </stateButton:StateButton.StrokeShape>
    <stateButton:StateButton.Triggers>
        <Trigger TargetType="stateButton:StateButton" Property="State" Value="Pressed">
            <Setter Property="BackgroundColor" Value="Green" />
        </Trigger>
    </stateButton:StateButton.Triggers>

    <Label Text="Test" TextColor="White">
        <Label.Triggers>
            <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Source={RelativeSource AncestorType={x:Type stateButton:StateButton}}, Path=State}"
                        TargetType="Label"
                        Value="Pressed">
                <Setter Property="TextColor" Value="Blue" />
            </DataTrigger>
        </Label.Triggers>
    </Label>
</stateButton:StateButton>

More examples can be found in the demo app - https://github.com/IeuanWalker/Maui.StateButton/tree/master/Demo/Controls/Examples

Accessibility

The control itself is seen as a native button on both platforms, so inherits the same accessbility attributes. So from a screenreader and keyboard POV it is a native button.

There are a few things you can do to improve the accessibility -

1. Set the SemanticProperties.Description property on the button. Android is smart enough, that if you dont set this property it will try and find a label within the control to read the text from, iOS does not do this, so if you dont set this property, iOS screenreader will just announce that there is a button, but no name or context is given.

2. Optionally you can also set the SemanticProperties.Hint property. Using this property you can give more context to what the button is for/ will do.

For example, setting the SemanticProperties.Description to 'Reload', and SemanticProperties.Hint to 'Reload list of contacts'. The user using a screen reader will here something like - 'Reload button, Reload list of contacts, double tap to activate'

Recomended usage

I recommend creating a ControlTemplate so you can easily re-use the control. You can see how i do this in the Example6 example button (xaml/ c#)

License