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Overview

The Xamarin Calendar is a functionally rich control that allows users to easily select single or multiple dates like a built-in calendar. It provides smooth gestures for navigation between month, year, decade and century views.

  • Ability to disable date selection for certain dates and within a specific date range.
  • Appearance customization.
  • Displaying events in inline or agenda view.
  • Globalization and localization to meet the needs of various regions.

Quick navigation between views

Displays month, year, decade and century views which allows users to easily select and navigate between all built-in views and also supports programmatic navigation.


Week view

Support to display one or more weeks in the month view which saves more screen space to achieve modern UI of mobile applications. It allows users to select single, multiple, and range of dates and displays the events associated with the selected date in agenda view.

Week view in Xamarin forms calendar control


Date selection

The Xamarin calendar view supports selecting a single, multiple, and range of dates. It also supports programmatic selection.


Date restriction

Prevents navigation beyond the specified minimum and maximum dates to restricts the users from selecting certain dates.

Date restriction support in xamarin forms calendar control


Blackout dates

Disables interactions and selections for certain dates. This is useful when you want to block user interaction during holidays or any other special events.


Special dates

The Xamarin calendar component provides a flexible way for highlighting special dates using custom templates.

Highlighting special dates in Xamarin forms calendar


Appearance Customization

The Calendar control style can be customized in the following aspects to fit the UI with the rest of your application.

  • Weekends and week days
  • Header and view headers
  • Current day
  • Month cells and year cells
  • Inline view

Appearance customization in Xamarin forms calendar control


Calendar events

Month calendar supports addition of events for specific dates. It displays indicators in month cells to denote the events. It also shows event details of the selected date in inline or agenda view.


Events customization

Support to customize inline and agenda view events using template and template selector.

Events customization in Xamarin forms calendar


First day of week

Change the first day of a week based on the application culture. In the month and year views, the days that follow the specified start day will be displayed in the calendar.

First day of week in Xamarin forms calendar


Customize trailing and leading days

Hide the days of the next month and previous month in calendar to enhance the appearance.

Customize trailing and leading days in Xamarin forms calendar


Globalization and localization

Globalization support in Xamarin forms calendar

Globalization

Displays date-time formats and headers in different cultures. Thus, it meets the needs of different regions.

Localization support in Xamarin forms calendar

Localization

Localizes all static text in the calendar. It is useful to meet the need of a particular language.


Right to left(RTL)

The Xamarin.Forms Calendar supports right to left (RTL) direction for users working in right-to-left languages like Hebrew, Arabic, or Persian.

RTL support in Xamarin forms calendar


Xamarin.Forms Calendar Code Example

Easily get started with the Xamarin.Forms Calendar using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our Xamarin.Forms Calendar Example that shows you how to render and configure the Calendar for Xamarin.Forms.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
			 xmlns:local="clr-namespace:GettingStarted;assembly=GettingStarted"
			 xmlns:syncfusion="clr-namespace:Syncfusion.SfCalendar.XForms;assembly=Syncfusion.SfCalendar.XForms"
			 x:Class="GettingStarted.CalendarPage">
			 
    <ContentPage.Content>
	    <syncfusion:SfCalendar x:Name="calendar" />
    </ContentPage.Content>
</ContentPage>
using Syncfusion.SfCalendar.XForms;
using Xamarin.Forms;
namespace GettingStarted
{
    public partial class CalendarPage : ContentPage
    {
        public CalendarPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            SfCalendar calendar = new SfCalendar();
            this.Content = calendar;
        }
    }
}



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Frequently Asked Questions

The Syncfusion Xamarin Calendar provides the following:

  • Four view modes: month, year, decade, and century.
  • Support for changing the number of weeks displayed in the month view.
  • Five selection modes: none, single, multiple, range, and multi range.
  • Inline and agenda views for displaying events.
  • Support to customize inline and agenda view events using templates and a template selector.
  • Globalization and localization to meet the needs of various regions.
  • Navigation that can be restricted to within minimum and maximum dates to prevent users from selecting certain dates.
  • Selection that can be restricted with blackout dates.
  • Support for circle and fill of selection.
  • An easily customizable appearance.
  • A flexible way to highlight special dates using custom templates.
  • Simple configuration and API.
  • Extensive demos and documentation to learn quickly and get started with Xamarin Calendar.

You can find our Xamarin Calendar demo here.

No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.

A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.

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