XfxEntry not masking when IsPassword=true in Xamarin.Forms Android about xfx.controls

[ChaseFlorell]

Good catch. Is this blocking you? I think I can look at it in the next day or so.

[rmawani]

Thanks for the great control, by the way!

Although it is blocking me somewhat, I can live with it for the time being until you're able to get around to fixing it in the next few days.

Thanks again!

[ChaseFlorell]

Fixed in commit b703f65

[ChaseFlorell]

@rmawani feel free to head over to Nuget and grab the latest build 😄

[rmawani]

Thanks for the fix, Chase... The masking works perfectly and as advertised in your Example app. However, when I build my own app with the latest build (1.0.1.3) of Xfx.Controls, I still have no masking.

I figured it might be because I've implemented the control in a Shared project environment as opposed to PCL, so I created a bare-bones PCL Solution and dropped an XfxEntry control onto the default ContentPage and added IsPassword = true. I then ran this completely unmodified Solution in the Emulator and surprisingly, no masking on the control.

I'm completely stumped and can only think it must be something somewhere in my config settings.

Any thoughts? Maybe you can create a bare-bones PCL Solution on your end, drop in a, XfxEntry control and then revert back with your findings?

[ChaseFlorell]

Well it's entirely my fault (PEBKAC)... As A result, I've opened issue #5 and also uploaded build 1.0.1.4 to nuget (which will be live shortly) Please test that version.

I did all of my testing in debug mode and forgot to create a release build. I'm so used to using build scripts that I didn't even think of it when I created that package (which re-used the old 1.0.0.2 build)

Whoops!

[rmawani]

Thanks again, Chase!

As much as the password masking issue is resolved, it seems like the fix may have introduced another weird bug that suppresses any text that is pre-loaded into the Text Property at runtime. For example, during testing, let's say I would like to pre-populate the XfxEntry with the User's email address instead of having to re-type it every time. This text does not show up on an Android build whereas it did before I applied the package update. iOS seems fine...

Can you please verify if this happens on your end as well?

Thanks again!

[ChaseFlorell]

@rmawani, I think I have a fix but I don't want to risk another crappy upload to nuget. Can you test from here? If you're satisfied, I'll publish to nuget.

https://github.com/XamFormsExtended/Xfx.Controls/releases/tag/1.0.2

[rmawani]

Thanks for the fix, @ChaseFlorell. This one works as expected!

Thanks again!