Aligning right to left on UICollectionView

Question

this is a pretty straightforward question, but I haven\'t been able to find a definitive answer to it on SO (if I missed it, please correct me).

Basically, my quest

Answer 1

Non of the above answers worked for me. The main reason was that most of them are not complete. However, I found this solution from this link by AlexSerdobintsev.

In AppDelegate.cs. First, you have to import the following function

[DllImport(ObjCRuntime.Constants.ObjectiveCLibrary, EntryPoint = "objc_msgSend")]
internal extern static IntPtr IntPtr_objc_msgSend(IntPtr receiver, IntPtr selector, UISemanticContentAttribute arg1);

Then call the function inside FinishedLaunching

        var selector = new ObjCRuntime.Selector("setSemanticContentAttribute:");
        IntPtr_objc_msgSend(UIView.Appearance.Handle, selector.Handle, UISemanticContentAttribute.ForceRightToLeft);

voila! we are done. Here is the file after applying the changes:

    [Register("AppDelegate")]
public partial class AppDelegate : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS.FormsApplicationDelegate
{
    [DllImport(ObjCRuntime.Constants.ObjectiveCLibrary, EntryPoint = "objc_msgSend")]
    internal extern static IntPtr IntPtr_objc_msgSend(IntPtr receiver, IntPtr selector, UISemanticContentAttribute arg1);


    //
    // This method is invoked when the application has loaded and is ready to run. In this 
    // method you should instantiate the window, load the UI into it and then make the window
    // visible.
    //
    // You have 17 seconds to return from this method, or iOS will terminate your application.
    //
    public override bool FinishedLaunching(UIApplication app, NSDictionary options)
    {
        global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.SetFlags("Shell_Experimental", "Visual_Experimental", "CollectionView_Experimental", "FastRenderers_Experimental");
        global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init();
        LoadApplication(new App());

        ...

        var selector = new ObjCRuntime.Selector("setSemanticContentAttribute:");
        IntPtr_objc_msgSend(UIView.Appearance.Handle, selector.Handle, UISemanticContentAttribute.ForceRightToLeft);

        return base.FinishedLaunching(app, options);
    }
}