Xamarin Forms - Share Screen, can you share a "hyperlink"?

Question

I'm learning Xamarin Forms. And specifically, if I want to share a complex link, but have the text be something simple how do you do that? What I have now is below.

await Share.RequestAsync(new ShareTextRequest
{
     Uri = "thelink",
     Title = "title", //ios doesn't use title
     Text = "extra text"
});

That obviously just puts in the link and some text. But I want something more akin to an html hyperlink.

Answer 1

Well if you are asking how to put a hiperlink in Xamarin forms, you can do it like this, just create a class in the Portable project and then call it from your XAML page, but remember to read the Xamarin Essentials documentation cause you need to put this in you info.plist:

<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
<string>lyft</string>  
<string>fb</string>
</array>

Answer 2

If you mean the Label with Hyperlinks , you can have a look at this doc here .

The text displayed by Label and Span instances can be turned into hyperlinks, sample code as follow :

<Label>
    <Label.FormattedText>
        <FormattedString>
            <Span Text="Alternatively, click " />
            <Span Text="here"
                  TextColor="Blue"
                  TextDecorations="Underline">
                <Span.GestureRecognizers>
                    <TapGestureRecognizer Command="{Binding TapCommand}"
                                          CommandParameter="https://docs.microsoft.com/xamarin/" />
                </Span.GestureRecognizers>
            </Span>
            <Span Text=" to view Xamarin documentation." />
        </FormattedString>
    </Label.FormattedText>
</Label>

When the hyperlink is tapped, the TapGestureRecognizer will respond by executing the ICommand defined by its Command property. In addition, the URL specified by the CommandParameter property will be passed to the ICommand as a parameter.

The code-behind for the XAML page contains the TapCommand implementation:

public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
{
    // Launcher.OpenAsync is provided by Xamarin.Essentials.
    public ICommand TapCommand => new Command<string>(async (url) => await Launcher.OpenAsync(url));

    public MainPage()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        BindingContext = this;
    }
}

The effect :

In addition , you also can create a reusable hyperlink class to make the xaml code more sample .