Plugin.Maui.DebugRainbows 1.0.0

Plugin.Maui.DebugRainbows

Have you ever had a piece of XAML code that didn't produce the layout you expected? Did you change the background colors on certain elements to get an idea of where they are positioned? Admit it, you have and pretty much all of us have at some point. Either way, this is the package for you! It adds some nice colorful debug modes to your ContentPages or specific visual elements that let you immediately see where all of your elements are located!

Install Plugin

Available on NuGet.

Install with the dotnet CLI: dotnet add package Plugin.Maui.DebugRainbows, or through the NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio.

Supported Platforms

API Usage

Registration

You will first need to register DebugRainbows with the MauiAppBuilder by calling UseDebugRainbows():

public static MauiApp CreateMauiApp()
{
    var builder = MauiApp.CreateBuilder();
    builder
        .UseMauiApp<App>()
        .UseDebugRainbows();
        // Coming Soon: Optionally provide an Options object:
        //.UseDebugRainbows(new DebugRainbowOptions());

    return builder.Build();
}

Features

Once you have set up DebugRainbows it will color all of your UI elements (everything inheriting from View) automatically. This way you can verify which elements might be taking up unnecessary space or trace elements that might not be behaving as expected.

🔜 Coming soon: additional grid overlay features currently already present in the old Xamarin.Forms version.

Acknowledgements

This project could not have come to be without these projects and people, thank you! ❤️

• The original DebugRainbows for Xamarin.Forms, also by me 😄
• The ever-inspiring Gerald Versluis