How to add the SVG images in Xamarin.Forms button

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Syncfusion Xamarin.Forms SfButton provides a support to get an elegant view in your application by setting background image and also display the button text along with the image. This article mainly explains how to use SVG image in it.

Available features to achieve it

Image and ImageSource properties in Xamarin.Forms SfButton to display the image along with the text.

BackgroundImage property to display the background image of Xamarin.Forms SfButton.

Needed package

Xamarin.Forms.Svg provides SvgImageSource to add Xamarin.Forms ImageSource.

How to use it in SfButton

By setting the SvgImageSource to the available image support properties in SfButton, you can achieve this as shown in the following code snippet.

[XAML]

  <!--Setting svg in Image property-->
        <buttons:SfButton BackgroundColor="##51E2F5" 
                          BorderWidth="2" 
                          BorderColor="Red" 
                          HorizontalOptions="Center"
                          VerticalOptions="Center"
                          WidthRequest="100" >
        <Image>
            <Image.Source>
                    <svg:SvgImageSource Source="Typogy1.svg" Width="40" Height="50" />
            </Image.Source>
        </Image>
        </buttons:SfButton>
        
        <!--Setting svg along with button text-->
        
        <buttons:SfButton  
            ShowIcon="True" 
            HorizontalOptions="Center" 
            VerticalOptions="Center"  
            WidthRequest="150" 
            HeightRequest="50"
            Margin="0,50,0,0"
            Text="Add to card">
            <buttons:SfButton.ImageSource>
                <svg:SvgImageSource Source="commerce-and-shopping.svg" Width="40" Height="50" Color="White"/>
            </buttons:SfButton.ImageSource>
        </buttons:SfButton>
        
        <!--Setting svg image as backgroud image of button-->
        <buttons:SfButton 
            TextColor="White"
            WidthRequest="100"
            HorizontalOptions="Center" 
            VerticalOptions="Center" 
            Margin="0,50,0,0"
            Text="Login">
            <buttons:SfButton.BackgroundImage>
                <svg:SvgImageSource Source="background.svg" Width="40" Height="50" />
            </buttons:SfButton.BackgroundImage>
        </buttons:SfButton>

Output

svg image support

Additional things to do that to make it render.

In Android: Add Xamarin.Forms.Svg.Droid.SvgImage.Init(this).

[C#]

public class MainActivity : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsAppCompatActivity
    {
        protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
        {
            TabLayoutResource = Resource.Layout.Tabbar;
            ToolbarResource = Resource.Layout.Toolbar;
 
            base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);
            global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(this, savedInstanceState);
            Xamarin.Forms.Svg.Droid.SvgImage.Init(this);
            LoadApplication(new App());
        }
    }

In iOS: Add Xamarin.Forms.Svg.iOS.SvgImage.Init().

[C#]

public override bool FinishedLaunching(UIApplication app, NSDictionary options)
        {
            global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init();
 
            Xamarin.Forms.Svg.iOS.SvgImage.Init();
            Syncfusion.XForms.iOS.Border.SfBorderRenderer.Init();
           Syncfusion.XForms.iOS.Buttons.SfButtonRenderer.Init();
 
            LoadApplication(new App());
 
            return base.FinishedLaunching(app, options);
        }

In PCL: Add SvgImageSource.RegisterAssembly().

[C#]

  public App()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
 
            SvgImageSource.RegisterAssembly();
 
            MainPage = new MainPage();
        }

View the sample in GitHub.

How to add the SVG images in Xamarin.Forms button

How to use it in SfButton

Output

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