Xamarin.forms: [UWP] Picker placeholder text

[deakjahn]

Description

According to the documentation (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/xamarin.forms.picker.title?view=xamarin-forms#Xamarin_Forms_Picker_Title), Title is displayed differently. Actually, it's rendered as a Control.Header on UWP. Is there any specific reason for this? The combobox the Picker is rendered with has a proper PlaceholderText property and it functions flawlessly. Why isn't it used?

It's rather straightforward to work around this issue by creating a descendant of Picker and minimally modifying its renderer but the reason for the original decision simply escapes me.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Use a Picker.
2. Set its Title.
3. Run on UWP.

Basic Information

• Version with issue: current
• Last known good version: none

[hartez]

Is there any specific reason for this?

The Title property seemed to map more naturally to the ComboBox.Header property than the ComboBox.PlaceholderText property. Especially in the case of pre-filled data, where the PlaceHolderText would never be visible to the user, so the purpose of the form field would not be apparent.

It's rather straightforward to work around this issue by creating a descendant of Picker and minimally modifying its renderer

Yup.

[MitchBomcanhao]

In a cross-platform world, I want my android and iOS and UWP apps to behave roughly the same without having to make custom renderers for each one to ensure they do.

2 years later, this is still the same and we still have to put in a special renderer to make the UWP app show the text in the placeholder bit just like iOS and Android.

[hammondreg]

No answer!