This section explains how to configure a SfRating control in a real-time scenario and also provides a walk-through on some of the customization features available in SfRating control.

For know more details about Rating: https://www.syncfusion.com/xamarin-ui-controls/xamarin-rating

Rating user guide documentation: https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin/rating/getting-started

After installing Essential Studio for Xamarin, you can find all the required assemblies in the installation folders, {Syncfusion Essential Studio Installed location} \Essential Studio{Version #}\Xamarin\lib.

You can add SfRating reference using one of the following methods:

Syncfusion Xamarin components are available in nuget.org. To add SfRating to your project, open the NuGet package manager in Visual Studio, search for Syncfusion.Xamarin.SfRating, and then install it.

Syncfusion also provides Xamarin Toolbox. Using this toolbox, you can drag the SfRating control to the XAML page. It will automatically install the required NuGet packages and add the namespace to the page. To install Syncfusion Xamarin Toolbox, refer to Toolbox.

If you prefer to manually reference the assemblies instead referencing from NuGet, add the following assemblies in respective projects.

Location: {Installed location}/{version}/Xamarin/lib

Add the following namespace.

[XAML]

<xmlns:rating="clr-namespace:Syncfusion.SfRating.XForms;assembly=Syncfusion.SfRating.XForms"/>

[C#]

using Syncfusion.SfRating.XForms;

Now, add the SfRating control with a required optimal name using the included namespace.

[XAML]

<rating:SfRating x:Name="rating" />

[C#]

SfRating rating;
public MainPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    rating = new SfRating();
    this.Content = rating;
}

To run this application, you need to first clone the xamarin-forms-rating repository and then open it in Visual Studio 2022. Now, simply build and run your project to view the output.

If you are facing path too long exception when building this example project, close Visual Studio and rename the repository to short and build the project.

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