Spacing in CollectionView has no impact

[paulober]

I tried increase the spacing in my CollectionView with this snippet from the docs:

<CollectionView.ItemsLayout>
        <LinearItemsLayout Orientation="Vertical"
                           ItemSpacing="20" />
</CollectionView.ItemsLayout>

but it has exactly no impact on the visual representation of that view. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

The rest looks like this:

<CollectionView
        x:Name="List"
        ItemsSource="{Binding NewsList}"
        RemainingItemsThreshold="2"
        RemainingItemsThresholdReached="OnNeedMore"
        SelectionMode="None">

<CollectionView.ItemTemplate>
            <DataTemplate x:DataType="models:News">
                <components:NewsTileItem
                ...
                />
             </DataTemplate>
 </CollectionView.ItemTemplate>
 
 <CollectionView.Footer>
            <Grid Padding="16">
                <ActivityIndicator IsRunning="{Binding IsLoading}" IsVisible="{Binding HasMore}"/>
                
                </Grid>
        </CollectionView.Footer>
    </CollectionView>

[PySom]

Hi @paulober is the code

<CollectionView.ItemsLayout>
        <LinearItemsLayout Orientation="Vertical"
                           ItemSpacing="20" />
</CollectionView.ItemsLayout>

inside the collection view? If not, may you try that

[paulober]

It is inside the collection view.

[stephenquan]

@paulober can you supply a minimal repro because when I tested the following the spaces work fine:

<CollectionView HeightRequest="400">
    <CollectionView.ItemsLayout>
        <LinearItemsLayout ItemSpacing="20" Orientation="Vertical" />
    </CollectionView.ItemsLayout>
    <CollectionView.ItemsSource>
        <x:Array Type="{x:Type x:String}">
            <x:String>Item 1</x:String>
            <x:String>Item 2</x:String>
            <x:String>Item 3</x:String>
        </x:Array>
    </CollectionView.ItemsSource>
    <CollectionView.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate x:DataType="x:String">
            <Border>
                <Label Text="{Binding .}" />
            </Border>
        </DataTemplate>
    </CollectionView.ItemTemplate>
</CollectionView>