Xamarin.Forms ListView ViewCell issue on iOS - ios

Question

I've been trying to get this looking right in Xaml (x.forms) but can't make it work. Any possibly way this can be solved in Xaml without a custom cell renderer?
Here is how it's supposed to look on native iOS:
What I'm getting so far in Xaml:
Here's my Xaml:
<ScrollView>
<StackLayout>
<ActivityIndicator IsRunning="{Binding IsFetching}" />
<ListView ItemsSource="{Binding Events}" Header="2015" Footer="">
<ListView.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<ViewCell Height="55">
<ViewCell.View>
<StackLayout Orientation="Horizontal" Padding="5" BackgroundColor="White">
<StackLayout>
<BoxView WidthRequest="44"
HeightRequest="5"
BackgroundColor="Purple"
/>
<Label Text="AUG" FontSize="12" HeightRequest="13" HorizontalOptions="Center" VerticalOptions="Start" FontAttributes="Bold"/>
<Label Text="31" FontSize="13" VerticalOptions="StartAndExpand" HorizontalOptions="Center" />
</StackLayout>
<StackLayout Orientation="Vertical"
HorizontalOptions="StartAndExpand">
<Label Text="Relay For Life of" FontSize="14" VerticalOptions="End" TextColor="Gray"/>
<Label Text="Hope City" FontSize="16" FontAttributes="Bold" VerticalOptions="StartAndExpand"/>
</StackLayout>
</StackLayout>
</ViewCell.View>
</ViewCell>
</DataTemplate>
</ListView.ItemTemplate>
</ListView>
</StackLayout>
</ScrollView>

Answer 1

You can try this with a Grid instead of Stack, also add RowHeight to your ListView
<ListView ... RowHeight="55">
...
<ViewCell Height="55">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="44"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
<ColumnDefinition Width="44"/> <!-- for the checkmark -->
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid Grid.Column="0">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="5" />
<RowDefinition Height="22" />
<RowDefinition Height="17" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<BoxView Grid.Row="0" WidthRequest="44" HeightRequest="5" BackgroundColor="Purple"/>
<!-- experiment with the vertical alignment to get it right -->
<Label Grid.Row="1" Text="AUG" .../>
<Label Grid.Row="2" Text="31" .../>
</Grid>
<Grid Grid.Column="0">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="22" />
<RowDefinition Height="22" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<!-- if the vertical alignment doesn't work well add two more rows for top and bottom padding -->
<Label Grid.Row="0" Text="Relay for life" VerticalOptions="End" .../>
<Label Grid.Row="1" Text="Hope city" VerticalOptions="Start" .../>
</Grid>
</Grid>
</ViewCell>

Answer 2

Set HasUnevenRows="True" on the ListView