display a timer using progressBar xamarin forms

Question

how to add a nice timer
xaml :

 <ProgressBar x:Name="progressBar" Grid.Row="2" Grid.ColumnSpan="5"
                    IsVisible="true"
                    Progress="0.0"
                    WidthRequest="300"
                    HeightRequest="20"
                    VerticalOptions="Center"
                    HorizontalOptions="Center">
                </ProgressBar>

behind code:

progressBar.Progress = 0;
await progressBar.ProgressTo(1.0, 90000, Easing.Linear);

Answer 1

You can use a timer to increment the ProgressBar:

var updateRate = 1000 / 30f; // 30Hz
double step = updateRate / (2 * 30 * 1000f);
Device.StartTimer(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(updateRate), () =>
{
    if (progressBar.Progress < 100)
    {
        Device.BeginInvokeOnMainThread(() => progressBar.Progress += step );
        return true;
    }
    return false;
});

Then you can use an IValueConverter to convert the progress to a minute:second style format:

public class CountDownConverter : IValueConverter
{
    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        double time = 0;
        double.TryParse(parameter.ToString(), out var totalTime);
        double.TryParse(value.ToString(), out var progress);
        time = progress <= double.Epsilon ? totalTime : (totalTime - (totalTime * progress));
        var timeSpan = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(time);
        return $"{timeSpan.Minutes:00;00}:{timeSpan.Seconds:00;00}";
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

Tying it together with XAML:

<Label
    BindingContext="{x:Reference progressBar}"
    Text = "{Binding Progress, StringFormat='{0:P0}'}"
    HorizontalOptions ="Center"
    FontSize="20"
    FontFamily = "Helvetica Neue"
    TextColor ="Red" />
<ProgressBar x:Name="progressBar"
    IsVisible="true"
    Progress="0.0"
    WidthRequest="300"
    HorizontalOptions="Center">
</ProgressBar>
<Label Text="{Binding Source={x:Reference progressBar},
                      Path=Progress,
                      Converter={StaticResource countDownTime},
                      ConverterParameter=120000}}"
    HorizontalOptions ="Center"
    FontSize="20"
    FontFamily = "Helvetica Neue"
    TextColor = "Red" />

Output:

Update:

You have to define a ResourceDictionary to have an instance of the CountDownConverter class created and named so you can reference it in XAML:

<ContentPage.Resources>
    <ResourceDictionary>
        <tools:CountDownConverter x:Key="countDownTime"/>
    </ResourceDictionary>
</ContentPage.Resources>

And the tools: namespace reference is based upon the C# namespace and assembly that contains the CountDownConverter. I have a bunch of these IValueConverter classes in a separate library and thus my xmlns:tools looks like:

xmlns:tools="clr-namespace:Converters;assembly=Converters"

re: Resource Dictionaries