Xamarin.iOS Popovers on Rotate

Question

I've seen lots and lots of posts about handling rotation for iOS popovers, but the majority of them target < iOS8 and/or Swift/ObjC. How can I do this with UIPopoverPresentationController and Xamarin.iOS? I need to keep it in the center of the screen.

  public override void ViewDidLoad()
  {
     ...

     _menuController.PopoverPresentationController.PermittedArrowDirections = 0;
     _menuController.PopoverPresentationController.WillReposition += OnWillReposition;
  }

  private void OnMenuSelected(object sender, EventArgs eventArgs)
  {
     InitializePopover();

     PresentViewController(_menuController, true, null);
  }

  private void OnWillReposition(object sender, UIPopoverPresentationControllerRepositionEventArgs args)
  {
     InitializePopover();
  }

  private void InitializePopover()
  {
     _menuController.PopoverPresentationController.SourceRect = GetCenterRect();
     _menuController.PopoverPresentationController.SourceView = View;
  }

  private CGRect GetCenterRect()
  {
     var midX = View.Bounds.GetMidX();
     var midY = View.Bounds.GetMidY();
     return new CGRect(midX, midY, 0, 0);
  }

OnWillReposition is called on rotation, but setting the SourceRect and SourceView doesn't appear to take effect. When I rotate again, I can see during debug that those properties have the old values.

Popular links I've seen so far:

seems like it should work but doesn't (am I listening to the wrong event?)
got the initial display working! but doesn't recenter
potential solution but what would I constrain?

Other thoughts:

Can I reposition in ViewDidLayoutSubviews? How?
Using a UIBarButtonItem isn't really an option, but maybe an invisible one?
Should I dismiss and present again? Seems hacky and I was getting exceptions...
Should I give up and simply set another view over everything else?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 22 '18 at 18:53

I figured it out just before posting. My problem was that I wasn't setting PermittedArrowDirections each time. Vent: Who thought that was a good idea? Anyway, after making that part of initialization, I simply call that in ViewDidLayoutSubviews, as below:

  public override void ViewDidLayoutSubviews()
  {
     base.ViewDidLayoutSubviews();

     InitializePopover();
  }

  private void InitializePopover()
  {
     _menuController.PopoverPresentationController.PermittedArrowDirections = 0;
     _menuController.PopoverPresentationController.SourceRect = GetCenterRect();
     _menuController.PopoverPresentationController.SourceView = View;
  }

So I don't use the UIPopoverPresentationController.WillReposition event at all. I hope this helps somebody -- I wouldn't want my worst enemy to go through all that frustration.

Xamarin.iOS Popovers on Rotate

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