I spent some of my time yesterday on a bit of porting Java to C#, instead of sitting in the sun and drinking beer. I found this pretty neat little library, AndroidSlidingUpPanel, which adds a panel to your app, which slides up from either the bottom or top of your screen. The code itself is very inspired by the innards of SlidingPaneLayout from Support v4.

Anyways, here is a GIF of what it looks like:

Adding to your project is pretty simple. Simply grab it from the Xamarin Component store or if you prefer, you can clone or download it from GitHub, which also has the component, but also the source code. There is a nice sample which will show you how to use this library, but if you just want to get started quickly. Simply add the following code to the AXML layout file you want this panel in:

	<cheesebaron.slidinguppanel.SlidingUpPanelLayout
	android:id="@+id/sliding_layout"
	android:layout_width="match_parent"
	android:layout_height="match_parent"
	android:gravity="bottom">
	<RelativeLayout
	android:layout_width="match_parent"
	android:layout_height="match_parent">
	<!-- Your main content inside here -->
	</RelativeLayout>
	<RelativeLayout
	android:layout_width="match_parent"
	android:layout_height="match_parent">
	<!-- Your main sliding panel inside here -->
	</RelativeLayout>
	</cheesebaron.slidinguppanel.SlidingUpPanelLayout>

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So the SlidingUpPanelLayout should be the root of your layout, and then it will have two children. First child is your content layout, what your originally had in your layout. The second child is the contents of the panel. Now you are good to go! For more info look at the docs on either the component store or on GitHub!