The following example demonstrates how to add programmatically controls to an Absolute Layout. First we have the XAML which contains an AbsoluteLayout.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
x:Class="App1.Page1">
<AbsoluteLayout x:Name="MyAbsoluteLayout">
</AbsoluteLayout>
</ContentPage>
Now we can use this AbsoluteLayout in order to add controls.
public partial class Page1 : ContentPage
{
public Page1 ()
{
InitializeComponent ();
MyAbsoluteLayout.Children.Add(
new BoxView
{
Color = Color.Blue
},
new Rectangle(0, 0, 200, 200));
MyAbsoluteLayout.Children.Add(
new BoxView
{
Color = Color.Red
},
new Rectangle(200, 0, 200, 200));
MyAbsoluteLayout.Children.Add(
new BoxView
{
Color = Color.Green
},
new Rectangle(0, 200, 200, 200));
MyAbsoluteLayout.Children.Add(
new BoxView
{
Color = Color.Yellow
},
new Rectangle(200, 200, 200, 200));
}
}