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Text Box Validation for UITextView in Xamarin
// sample text box
var descriptionField = new UITextView (new RectangleF (0, 230, UIScreen.MainScreen.Bounds.Width, 100)){
BackgroundColor = UIColor.White,
Text = " Description:",
TextColor = ViewHelpers.DarkGray,
Font = UIFont.FromName("Helvetica", 18f)
};
// validation
descriptionField.ShouldEndEditing = t => {
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty (descriptionField.Text)) {
descriptionField.Layer.BorderColor = ViewHelpers.DarkBlue.CGColor;
descriptionField.Layer.BorderWidth = 2;
descriptionField.Text = " Please fill in a Description:";
} else if (descriptionField.Text.Length > 0) {
descriptionField.Layer.BorderWidth = 0;
}
return true;
};
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