ListView Item Selected/Tapped not Working on iOS

Question

We have recently implemented ItemSelected on one of our ListView components. It works fine on Android, but on iOS the list items only respond to a user hitting them about 1 out of 10 times. We tried changing our ItemSelected handler to an ItemTapped, but ran into the same issue.

Here are the attributes on our ListView:

x:Name="list"
ItemsSource="{Binding Items}"
SeparatorVisibility="None"
 HasUnevenRows="False"
RowHeight="100"
BackgroundColor="Transparent"
ItemSelected="OnItemSelected"
IsEnabled="{Binding IsBusy, Converter={StaticResource negate}}"

And here is the relevant code behind (though the OnItemSelected event is not fired when tapping, so I think it's failing in the xaml):

    protected override void OnAppearing()
    {
        SetListHeightRequest(list, pageTitle, CTAs);
        base.OnAppearing();
    }

    async void OnItemSelected(object sender, SelectedItemChangedEventArgs args)
    {
        _viewModel.SelectedItem = args.SelectedItem;
        await _viewModel.HandleSelectItemAsync();
    }

    protected void SetListHeightRequest(ListView list, Layout title, Layout ctas)
    {
        list.HeightRequest = Application.Current.MainPage.Height - (title.Height + ctas.Height);
    }

Answer 1

Yes, it works by adding CachingStrategy="RecycleElement" on the listview's properties

Answer 2

Hello,

Welcome to our Microsoft Q&A platform!

I'm so sorry I can't reproduce this issue, I suspect that it caused by the ViewModel, so I display a tableview without ViewModel, it works well.
XAML

<ListView  
             x:Name="list"  
            ItemsSource="{Binding Items}"  
            SeparatorVisibility="None"  
            HasUnevenRows="False"  
            RowHeight="100"  
            BackgroundColor="Transparent"  
            ItemSelected="OnItemSelected">  
            <ListView.ItemTemplate>  
                <DataTemplate>  
                    <TextCell Text="{Binding }" />  
                </DataTemplate>  
            </ListView.ItemTemplate>  
        </ListView>   

Code behind

 public ObservableCollection<string> Items { get; set; } = new ObservableCollection<string>();  
        public MainPage()  
        {  
            InitializeComponent();  
                for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++){  
                Items.Add(i.ToString());  
            }  
                  
            BindingContext = this;  
             
        }  
        protected override void OnAppearing()  
        {  
            base.OnAppearing();  
        }  
        async void OnItemSelected(object sender, SelectedItemChangedEventArgs args)  
        {  
            Console.WriteLine("has been selected");  
        }  

Then, I add the ViewMode and Model, it also works.

XAML

<DataTemplate>  
    <TextCell Text="{Binding Text}" />  
  </DataTemplate>  

Code behind

public partial class MainPage : ContentPage  
    {  
        public ItemViewModel Items { get; set; } = new ItemViewModel();  
        public MainPage()  
        {  
            InitializeComponent();  
            BindingContext = Items;  
        }  
        protected override void OnAppearing()  
        {  
            base.OnAppearing();  
        }  
        async void OnItemSelected(object sender, SelectedItemChangedEventArgs args)  
        {  
            Items.SelectedItem = (Item)args.SelectedItem;  
            await Items.TaskHandleSelectItemAsync();  
              
        }  
    }  

ItemViewModel

 public class ItemViewModel  
    {  
        public ObservableCollection<Item> Items { get; set; } = new ObservableCollection<Item>();  
        public Item SelectedItem { get; set; }  
        public ItemViewModel()  
        {  
            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)  
            {  
               Item item = new Item { Text = i.ToString() };  
               Items.Add(item);  
            }  
        }  
  
      public async Task  TaskHandleSelectItemAsync()  
        {  
            Console.WriteLine("has been selected" + SelectedItem.Text);  
        }  
    }  

Model

public class Item  
    {  
        public string Text { get; internal set; }    
    }  

I change the HeightRequest, it also works. The biggest difference is that you use _viewModel and IsEnabled="{Binding IsBusy, Converter={StaticResource negate}}" and SetListHeightRequest , you could try to check these methods.
In addition, would you mind sharing a demo to me so that I can reproduce this issue and test it?

Best Regards,
Wenyan Zhang

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Answer 3

Such basic issue still exists in year 2025. It is a shame! Thanks @Stefan Hodges-Kluck . Your solution works.