android - Is there a better way to size scaled elements in Xamarin Forms XAML? -

this snip of xaml xamarin forms android application. wondering knows less baroque way of positioning , sizing full-width slider has been scaled double size?

<grid>   <grid.rowdefinitions><rowdefinition height="auto"/></grid.rowdefinitions>   <grid.columndefinitions><columndefinition width="*"/><columndefinition width="2*"/><columndefinition width="*"/></grid.columndefinitions>   <slider grid.row="0" grid.column="1"     horizontaloptions="fillandexpand"     scale="2.0" /> </grid> 

this around 2 bizarre limitations/bugs in xf:

1. the scale parameter ignored layout slider sized double available space , gets clipped.

2. the padding parameter not accept relative values there no way of specifying want left , right padding occupy 25% of total space available. absolute number break on different screen resolution or on screen rotation.

it seems wildly excessive have use grid when need 1 cell!

you can use absolutelayout make code more simple, result same:

<absolutelayout>     <slider         absolutelayout.layoutflags="all"         absolutelayout.layoutbounds=".5, .5, .5, .5"         scale="2.0">     </slider> </absolutelayout>