Xamarin.iOS UIPopoverPresentationController Exception

Question

I am having difficulty presenting a Popover with UIPopoverPresentationController, following what can I find from the internet, including this and this. Nothing has helped. Here's a test app I created:

ViewController.cs

  public override void ViewDidLoad()
  {
     ...

     var popupView = new UIImageView(new CGRect(0, 0, 200, 200))
     {
        Image = UIImage.FromBundle("Menu")
     };

     _menuController = new UIViewController
     {
        ModalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover,
        View = popupView
     };

     _presentationController = new UIPopoverPresentationController(_menuController, this)
     {
        SourceView = View,
        SourceRect = new CGRect(50, 50, 300, 300),
     };
  }

And I invoke on button press with:

  PresentViewController(_menuController, true, null);

I get this exception when the presentation style is Popover:

UIPopoverPresentationController should have a non-nil sourceView or barButtonItem set before the presentation occurs.

Answer 1

Every UIViewController has a UIPopoverPresentationController called PopoverPresentationController, you can just use that to present your pop view:

private void OnMenuSelected(object sender, EventArgs eventArgs)
{
    var popupView = new UIImageView(new CGRect(0, 0, 200, 200))
    {
        Image = UIImage.FromBundle("Menu"),
        UserInteractionEnabled = true
    };

    _menuController = new UIViewController
    {
        ModalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.Popover,
        PreferredContentSize = new CGSize(200, 200),
        View = popupView
    };

    _menuController.PopoverPresentationController.SourceRect = new CGRect(50, 50, 300, 300);
    _menuController.PopoverPresentationController.SourceView = View;


    PresentViewController(_menuController, true, null);
}

I find that when we dismiss the popoverview, it will return to null. So here I recommend you to initialize it in your method every time when you show it up.

Moreover if you want to achieve the same effect on iPhone, please add the UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate like:

public override UIModalPresentationStyle GetAdaptivePresentationStyle(UIPresentationController forPresentationController)
{
    return UIModalPresentationStyle.None;
}

Set the delegate to it: _menuController.PopoverPresentationController.Delegate = new MyPopOverViewDelegate();