Show keyboard on search button click
I have a search icon on the toolbar. When I click it, I am making search bar visible. I also want to be able to show search keyboard . How can I show the keyboard when user clicks on search icon on...
View ArticleStacklayout spacing=0 still showing space. Help!
Hi all, I've a xaml page with a top banner and bottom banner using stacklayout but there is a space between the banner and main(middle) stacklayout. How do i get rid of that space (Aqua line because of...
View ArticleLaunching application for debugging keeps showing on VS and iOS simulator quits.
Hi Xamarin Team, Please look at this for reference, "https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=28027" I tried many times to run my app on iOS simulator but it always quits after showing a splash of...
View ArticleBuild Errors in Android Apps with Xamatin Forms Dependencies
Recently went through a bit of a struggle with building Xamarin Projects which resulted in two new personal best practices and thought they might be worth sharing in case anyone else runs into the same...
View ArticleUnable to Run Xamarin.Forms app in iOS 9 Simulator - stuck with Waiting for...
Hi, I am trying to run my existing Forms project in iOS 9. I followed the instructions given in Xamarin documentation. Added my environment info below. === Xamarin Studio === Version 5.9.4 (build 5)...
View ArticlePossibility of Akka.Net support?
Hi, Would it be possible to provide support for Akka.Net ( http://getakka.net/ ) to allow development of reactive applications? Kind Regards, JP van der Merwe
View ArticleRendering Local Pdf to webview
Hey, I want to render local pdf file in WebView control of xamarin forms. Is that possible? How can we do that? Any suggestion?
View ArticleStrange digits in Windows 8.1 application
Hello, Could you comment please, why we have flickering digits in some areas of the Windows 8.1 application page? See screenshots for details. Regards, Aleksandrs
View ArticleCreate share button
Hello, is there a way to create a "Share" button with Forms? I want to create this button that, when pressed, launches the classic intent chooser in Android (Image 1), the UIActivityViewController in...
View ArticleRenderer: Property change for {0} has not been implemented.
Hello, I got this error during the debug of my application (xamarin.forms). Do anyone have the same problem? Do you any idea about how to resolve it? " Renderer: Property change for {0} has not been...
View ArticleError: Build failed. See the build log for details.
When I am building an ipa file from xamarin.ios in xamarin.forms project, i have "Build failed. See the build log for details." error as an output. How to fix this error?
View ArticleInitializeComponent does not exist
Hi, I'm having difficulties on XAML files in a Sheared project. Using Xamarin Studio; What I did was simply adding a xaml page to the project and build without adding any code. And it gives me the "The...
View ArticleNamedSize values
Hi, Now the NamedSize enumeration has gone from xamforms, is there a replacement set of values that can be used for the NamedSizes or is it something that can be calculated somehow? PFJ
View ArticleMy BindableProperty on custom control is called twice every time in my...
Hi folks, I have a BindableProperty in a custom control like so: public static readonly BindableProperty ShowIndeterminateProperty = BindableProperty.Create<CoreProgress, bool>( p =>...
View ArticlePopup keyboard hides parts of the UI rather than resizing
I would like to create a screen that has a behavior similar to common chat apps e.g. Hangouts where there's a scrollable section of the page and an Entry with a Button underneath that updates the...
View ArticleProblem with FormsAppCompatActivity and MasterDetailPage
I've upgraded to the new FormsAppCompatActivity. There are a lot of bugs, I'm going through them one by one. Now, the drawer is being displayed over the Toolbar. I want to the Toolbar to be always on...
View Articlefailed to deploy application on the target device please try to rebuild the...
I have an iPhone 4s that I have already configured for debugging and have deployed my application to many times. However, after the iOS update to 9.0, i get. "failed to deploy application on the target...
View ArticleOpen PDF in Android default PDF reader
Hi, I'm searching a way to open a PDF (stored in local) in the Android default PDF reader in Xamarin.Forms. I'm using a webview for iOS but WebViews on Android cannot open a local PDF. var browser =...
View ArticleListView ScrollTo is not scrolling correctly
Hi developers, I am using several ListView controls in my App, but the ScrollTo method is not working as aspected. When I call the method to scroll to the last item in the list, the ListView is always...
View ArticleElement.ParentPage() Extension
Here's is a little extension that I wrote to find the parent Page for a given element. I use it for custom Views and in custom renderers. Thought it would be helpful for others, as it took me a little...
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