Toolbar item not showing in xamarin forms

Question

I am pretty much new to Xamarin forms. I am trying to add toolbar items to content page.

I am using IPAD Air as deployment device and used sever iPhone/ipad simulat

Answer 1

Just wanted to add an edge case to this which drove me nuts for a couple of hours. I had been adding icons outside of Visual Studio and attempting to reference them as toolbar icons in my Xamarin forms app. When testing the Android app, the toolbar icon I was referencing wouldn't display. I finally figured out that the icons weren't being packaged at all in the .APK file. Why? I'd forgotten to include them in the Visual Studio project. Solution Explorer -> Click on project -> Click on Show All Files icon in header bar of Solution Explorer. Icon files then appear, so just right-click them and select Include in Project for each one. Doh...gnash...gnash etc.

Answer 2

Your ToolbarItems will not show if your app does not have a Toolbar. The simplest way to add one is to wrap your page in a NavigationPage

public static Page GetMainPage ()
{   
  return new NavigationPage(new SamplePage ());
}