Hello Ishani,

I am afraid this feature is not scheduled for implementation. When there is an update the status will be changed.

Regards,
Didi
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Hello Greg,

Yes, this should be submitted as a Feature Request for UI for MAUI's ImageEditor control. This is because .NET MAUI is a new platform, with new controls (even though some have the same names and implementation instructions).

For your convenience, I have created the request on your behalf => Drawing Annotations Layer - Drawing, Shapes. You do not need to take any further action as I've transferred your upvote and you'll be notified of any status changes.

Note:

For everyone else in this thread, since I don't know if you're using .NET MAUI or not, I cannot automatically transfer your upvotes. Please take a moment to go to the linked item above and add your upvote. Thanks!

Regards,
Lance | Manager Technical Support
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Hello all,

The image drawing/annotation feature status will be changed when there is an update. I cannot commit an exact time-frame when this feature will be provided.

Regarding to a solution until the feature is part of the image editor features set, use the approach Lance provided.

Regards,
Didi
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Hi Tom (and others),

As a temporary alternative, you can use the same APIs that we would use in an official feature. You can draw those annotations using SkiaSharp (programmatically or via user gesture).

In fact, Microsoft has an excellent demo to get you 90% of the way there Finger Painting in SkiaSharp - Xamarin | Microsoft Docs.

Here are the other things you would want to consider based on your ultimate goal:

• If you want the annotations to become part of the image, then use your image to set the background of the canvas first (source code here). When the user is done annotating, you can save the canvas to a file (see how to save here).
• If you do not want the annotations to become part of the image, then you can save the SkiaSharp strokes/shapes themselves as data (see how the FingerPaint demo has two collections completedPaths and inprogressPaths? you could serialize them)

Extras:

• You can layer multiple images using transparency, see SkiaSharp Transparency
• Here are all the official SkiaSharp demos xamarin-forms-samples/SkiaSharpForms/Demos

Regards,
Lance | Manager Technical Support
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Hi Alan,

Thank you for your input. I can assure you that we keep an eye on this item and track its demand.  Still, it is not in our plans for the R2 2021 release. 

Please follow the item, so you will receive an email notification when there is an update.

Regards,
Didi
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Hello Greg,

Thank you for describing the use case you have, we'll take it into account when discussing the exact feature implementation.

Regards,
Yana
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Hello Dhanushka,

I can assure you that we keep an eye on this item. However, it is not included in our plans for the next official release. Please follow the item, so you will receive an email notification when its status changes. 

Regards,
Didi
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Hi Greg,

Thank you for your input. We will have it in mind.

Regards,
Didi
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Hello Tom,

Thank you for submitting this feature request. I agree this would be a valuable addition to the ImageEditor's feature-set, so I've updated the status of the item to "Approved". 
You can also find your points updated for your involvement.

I'd also like to ask you for more details on the scenarios you would cover with this feature - in what cases more specifically would you use a drawing tool, what shapes would you expect to be available? 

I am looking forward to your reply.

Regards,
Yana
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