(Android) Has there been a 'Picker' regression?

[bradencohen]

Please tell me if I'm doing something wrong or missing something...

On Android, the picker in Xamarin seems to be a little more enhanced than the one in MAUI:

Using a Xamarin.Forms.Picker:

1. Stays the same size consistently.
2. Has scrolling capabilities to select different items.

The Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Picker:

I purposefully duplicated the items to show how the window just expands. Both screenshots stem from a Pixel 5 - API 33.

[davidortinau]

The picker code looks to be a direct copy from Xamarin.Forms. The style change here appears to be theme/style related since we use the native Android component. MAUI updated that compared to Xamarin.Forms.

https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/components/dialogs
https://m2.material.io/components/dialogs#usage
https://m3.material.io/components/dialogs/overview

The style looks accurate here, though @PureWeen mentioned we should confirm this. I do wonder about the height of the modal dialog, and the presence of the OK.

@bradencohen are there UX goals you cannot achieve in the new UI?

[bradencohen]

Gotcha. That makes sense. It seems to work fine, but I'll do some more testing (a picker with like 30 items maybe) and post it here.

[bradencohen]

The UX definitely isn't unusable:

In my opinion, the experience is worse, but if that's Android's fault then so be it (what do I know anyway?).

@davidortinau Thanks for taking a look!