You can customize the annotation toolbars for the document viewers.
Customize annotation toolbar for Xamarin.Android viewer
This tutorial only applies to Xamarin.Android. See Xamarin.iOS equivalent here .
AnnotationToolbarComponent is a class that contains the logic and views that make up the annotation toolbar. The annotation toolbar can be customized to contain a number of annotation creation tools button as well as any custom button. With the annotation toolbar, users are able to conveniently create annotations and switch between different tools.
The buttons on the annotation toolbar are contained in two groups: the scrollable region (left) and the sticky region (right). The scrollable region can contain any number of buttons and scrolling is used to access buttons that are off-screen. Buttons in the sticky region will always show on the screen and will not be scrollable.
To learn more about each icon, see the icon cheat sheet .
Create a custom annotation toolbar
The annotation toolbar allows users to easily switch tools when adding annotations to a document. To add an annotation toolbar to your app, first define some layout groups in your app that will contain the annotation toolbar:
If you have used ToolManager to hide certain tools, then the associated tool buttons will also be hidden in the annotation toolbar.
Hide tool buttons
If there are tools that you would like to remove from the annotation toolbar, you can disable them by calling ToolManager.disableToolMode(ToolMode[]). This will also hide the tool in the quick menu. For example:
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Edit annotations continuously
For continuous annotation creation, AnnotationToolbarComponent will use value set by PdfViewCtrlSettingsManager.setContinuousAnnotationEdit(Context, boolean) (by default true). If continuous annotation editing is disabled, then the tool button will be de-selected in the annotation toolbar after creating an annotation.
Appearance styles
In order to customize the appearance of UI elements in your annotation toolbar, you can define a new style that extends PTAnnotationToolbarTheme inside your res\values\style.xml file and pass it as an attribute to your viewer's theme named pt_annotation_toolbar_style. For more information on customizing the style of UI components, please take a look at our viewer theme guide .
Customize annotation toolbar for Xamarin.iOS viewer
This tutorial only applies to Xamarin.iOS. See Xamarin.Android equivalent here .
The PTAnnotationToolbar class is a UIToolbar consisting of various annotation creation tools. With the annotation toolbar, users are able to conveniently create and switch between different tools.
The annotation toolbar control is part of the Tools library, so make sure you have added it to your project.
Due to space limitations, only a limited number of tools will show up in portrait mode on smaller devices. See the customization section of this guide for more details on how to customize this.
Scenario
Annotation Toolbar
Small devices in landscape mode + Tablet devices
Small devices in portrait mode
Show and hide the annotation toolbar
To create and set up an annotation toolbar, initialize an AnnotationToolbar instance and add it to your view hierarchy:
1var annotationToolbar = new pdftron.PDF.Controls.PTAnnotationToolbar(mToolManager);
The PTAnnotationToolbar class provides an API for specifying which tools are displayed in the toolbar when there is insufficient space to show them all. This is controlled by the PrecedenceArray property.
Annotation toolbar delegate
The PTAnnotationToolbarDelegate protocol allows the adopting class (usually the containing view controller, as in this guide) to be notified of annotation toolbar events and control the behavior of the toolbar.
By default, the annotation toolbar returns to the pan tool after an annotation is created. If you prefer to stay in the same tool mode after an annotation is created, you should implement the toolShouldGoBackToPan method in your AnnotationToolbarDelegate adopting class:
The annotation toolbar's behavior could also be handled within user settings by checking and returning the appropriate settings value in the method above.