How to bind to View's layout_weight in MvvmCross?

Question

What is the easiest way to bind to View\'s (or any other Android control) weight? Because this property doesn\'t have a setter, I tried custom binding, but id doesn\'t seem to w

Answer 1

MvxSimplePropertyInfoTargetBindingFactory can only be used for real C# properties.

For invented "pseudo" properties, you need to use a custom binding registration like that shown in the n=28 tutorial -

    protected override void FillTargetFactories(Cirrious.MvvmCross.Binding.Bindings.Target.Construction.IMvxTargetBindingFactoryRegistry registry)
    {
        registry.RegisterCustomBindingFactory<BinaryEdit>(
                        "N28", 
                        binary => new BinaryEditFooTargetBinding(binary) );
        base.FillTargetFactories(registry);
    }

https://github.com/MvvmCross/NPlus1DaysOfMvvmCross/blob/master/N-28-CustomBinding/CustomBinding.Droid/Setup.cs