using included Symbol Icons for AppBar with winrt
How do I make use of the symbol icons included with WINRT? So usually in winrt I just do this <Page.BottomAppBar> <CommandBar> <CommandBar.PrimaryCommands> <AppBarButton...
View ArticleForce ListView to redraw when itemtapped on iOS.
Hey I have a listview with some custom viewcells. I want the viewcell to change its backgroundcolor when the cell is tapped. overriding the OnTapped() function worked on android but when i do it on iOS...
View ArticleEntry Next/Finished Buttons - Android
When placing multiple Entry controls on a page in Xamarin forms, there appears to be no (obvious) way to enable the Next/Finished buttons that appear on the device keyboard. The buttons appear, but...
View ArticleMissing native ObjectiveC class after updating Xamarin.Forms and XLabs
I updated Xamarin.Forms to 1.5.1.6471 and XLabs to 2.0.5782 and suddenly I'm getting the following error when it hits the line of code to load a HybridWebView. Wrapper type...
View ArticleTabbedPage on Android only shows the last page
I hope somebody can help. This has been plaguing me for a few days, and I'm at my wits end with this bug. The problem that occurs is that I have a TabbedPage with two or more pages. In every case, the...
View ArticleVery first tutorial on using Xamarin forms
I am following the tutorial: http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/getting-started/hello-xamarin-forms/quickstart/ for getting started on Tamarin.Forms, but as I understand...
View ArticleHow OnBackButtonPressed works?
Hi, I'm trying to understand how OnBackButtonPressed works because I set the breakpoint in that method but it's never hit. I have two pages - PageOneView ** and **PageTwoView. In App.cs, I set...
View ArticleNeed to put HTML into a Label
I am using Xamarin.Forms and the Label view. I use the FormattedText (FormattedString class) to put formatted text in the Label. My goal here is to be able to convert HTML to a FormattedString. In...
View ArticleSetting the height of a BoxView as a percentage of the Grid which contains it...
Hi all, I've got a requirement to fill a bunch of boxes with a color based on a individual double properties on the viewmodel which represent the percentage "full" the box should be. These properties...
View ArticleContentView ItemTemplateSelector (No listView)
Hi, I'm trying to work with a ContentView that can have different template based on a parameter. In my case, depends on the language, I will have a different template. Every sample I've found on the...
View ArticleDoes BaseUrl still not work in Android?
I am downloading HTML content from cloud (html, css, js and image files) and want to render in my mobile app. I am storing the css, js and image files into a local folder and want those to be picked up...
View ArticleHow to Databind to a "Dynamic" object ?
I am currently using DevExpress grid and want to data-bind the grid to a Dynamic object that does not have properties. I have to assign an object to the ItemsSource property and I am not sure how to...
View ArticleDo MessagingCenter subscriptions get processed on not visibale pages
I have a page that includes a control, this control has a view model that subscribes to a message Like this MessagingCenter.Subscribe<object, string[]>(dummy, "UPDATE_LAST_SYNCED", (sender,...
View ArticleC Embeded Native library
Hi, Guys I build *.so from c-code by NDK with function: extern "C" void test(); I try to add *. so to project in lib/armeabi-v7a and call it from C#: [DllImport("test.so")] public static extern void...
View ArticleIs there a way to create a TabbedPage without instantiating all the Sub/Tab...
Hi, I want to create a TabbedPage to display inherent files of a folder in a ListView. But the more folders i add to the TabbedView, the more time it takes to initiate the view because all SubPages are...
View ArticleButton renderer and states
Hi, I've read a lot of code and example without finding anything really usefull. I'm looking for a way to customize the appearance of a button depend on its state. Right now, the only thing I managed...
View Articleproblem with navigation
I created a Service (Navigation Service, NavigationService), but when I use in my ViewModel, nothing happens when I use the "PushAsync" but when I use the "PopModalAsync" present my page I want to...
View ArticleHow can I get the MasterDetailPage to behave itself in split view on iPad?
I've got an app that's using the Xamarin Forms MasterDetailPage to layout a slide-over burger menu on phones and a popover on tablets. But when I open the app in split view on an iPad, it falls down....
View ArticlePlay m3u8 stream in Android Renderer
Hey guys, I'm making a Xamarin.Forms app that will stream video from a m3u8 feed. I've created a custom renderer in iOS and everything is working as expected there. I'm having some issues with Android....
View ArticleStop making properties internal!
It's getting really annoying. Many of the controls are under-developed on Windows Phone (e.g. MasterDetailPage - seriously, a command bar icon???), and our team decided to work around that. Except they...
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