Xamarin Forms ListView SelectedItem Binding Issue

Question

ListViews follow the ItemPicker/Selector pattern of UI controls. Generally speaking, these types of controls, regardless of their platform will have a SelectedItem, and an Items

Answer 1

The Xamarin Forms team created a pull request to solve some of the issues here: https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/pull/1152

But, I don't believe this pull request was ever accepted in to the master branch of Xamarin Forms.