MonoTouch port of TDBadgedCell

I recently wanted to add an 'item count' to a UITableView in one of my iPhone/iPad projects and thought it would be nice to match the grey/encircled 'badge' used in the Mail application.

Happily,  I found (via The Unofficial Apple Weblog) that Tim Davies had the same idea and already done the hard work, albeit in Objective-C. Tim's code for TDBadgedCell is on github (you can help him out and donate, too), as is the MonoTouch/C# port: TDBadgedCellSharp. Both produce the same output (shown below)

The important stuff (TDBadgeView and TDBadgeCell) is in TDBadgedCell.cs - the rest of the project is purely for demonstration purposes.

Here's a very simple example of how to use the badged cell (warning: doesn't show DequeueReusableCell which you would normally use in the GetCell method)...

public override UITableViewCell GetCell 
   (UITableView tableView, NSIndexPath indexPath)
{
   TDBadgedCell cell = new TDBadgedCell (UITableViewCellStyle.Subtitle, "Cell");
   cell.TextLabel.Text = contents[indexPath.Row].Title;
   cell.TextLabel.Font = UIFont.BoldSystemFontOfSize (14);

   cell.DetailTextLabel.Text = contents[indexPath.Row].Detail;
   cell.DetailTextLabel.Font = UIFont.SystemFontOfSize (13);

   cell.Accessory = UITableViewCellAccessory.DisclosureIndicator;
   cell.BadgeNumber = Convert.ToInt32 (contents[indexPath.Row].Badge);

   if (indexPath.Row == 1)
      cell.BadgeColor = UIColor.FromRGBA (1.000f, 0.397f, 0.419f, 1.000f);
   if (indexPath.Row == 2)
      cell.BadgeColor = UIColor.FromWhiteAlpha (0.783f, 1.000f);
   return cell;
}

Thanks Tim!

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