CarouselView doesn't render with AbsoluteLayout on Android about carouselview HOT 7 CLOSED

So it appeared to be some inconsistency between Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android, because the following XAML code works:

	<AbsoluteLayout BackgroundColor="Yellow"
	                HorizontalOptions="Fill"
	                VerticalOptions="Fill">
		<StackLayout AbsoluteLayout.LayoutBounds="0,0,1,1"
		             AbsoluteLayout.LayoutFlags="All"
		             BackgroundColor="Blue"
		             HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
		             VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand">
			<controls:CarouselViewControl x:Name="IntroCarousel"
			                              HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
			                              ItemTemplate="{StaticResource myTemplateSelector}"
			                              ItemsSource="{Binding Pages}"
			                              Position="0"
			                              VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" />
		</StackLayout>
		<StackLayout AbsoluteLayout.LayoutBounds="1,1,0.9,1"
		             AbsoluteLayout.LayoutFlags="All"
		             BackgroundColor="Red"
		             Orientation="Horizontal"
		             VerticalOptions="End">
			<Button x:Name="prevBtn"
			        IsVisible="false"
			        Style="{StaticResource IntroPreviousBtnStyle}"
			        Text="Previous" />
			<Button x:Name="nextBtn"
			        Style="{StaticResource IntroNextBtnStyle}"
			        Text="Next" />
		</StackLayout>

Thanks for the great control.

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Did you solved this?

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@alexrainman commented on 2 dec. 2016 18:26 CET:

Did you solved this?

Yeah, see code above. The trick was to use the LayoutBounds on both StackLayout.

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Yes, Forms has some problems in Android.

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I'm not sure which one was correct (iOS or Android), but still weird that they behave differently. 😞

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