custom renderer navigation bar disappears
For my project I needed to have something to the effect of a master detail page but with the possibility of a sliding menu on either side of the screen. So I wrote my own and added custom renderers....
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Hello I try to use Picker view in PCL library and it is worked well on Android (invoking nice popup with options), but on Windows Phone 8.1 I have strange behaviour - if picker has less than 6 items...
View ArticleBuilding Interfaces: XAML vs C# Code
Hello everyone! I have a question, I recently started using Xamarin, I come from Windows and then I'm used to using XAML and C #. I noticed that many people prefer to use C # to build interfaces...
View ArticleiOS Entry Predictive Text bug?
I'm seeing a weird problem in my iOS app. I have a login page with entries/textboxes for user name and password. When I type in a value into the username, for example, and it suggests the word via the...
View ArticleGEO Location in Android using MVVM
Hi All, I am trying to make a MVVM app, in which I will have a button which speaks to the interface to contact the device plugin and get the Current Location of the android device, I am just going to...
View ArticleVisual Studio reporting errors (Value cannot be null) since last set of...
Since applying the latest Xamarin updates, Visual Studio is reporting the following error: ERROR: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: project Unfortunately, with so much software auto-updating these...
View ArticleWhy isn't intellisense working well with xaml?
I have VS 2015 with xamarin.forms. When I write a xaml page, intellisense doesn't show up suggestion, such as x:Name and auto-compile method for "clicked" event. why is it happening?
View ArticleCan I use Use UIViewController and ContentPage in one app?
In my app, Some View are coded with UIViewController, and some are inherited from ContentPage(in pcl, with xamarin.forms). Can I navigate between these two? Thanks
View Articletype CardContentView not found in xmlns http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms ”
Hi I need to use James Montemagno’s developted CardContentView in Xaml of xamarin.form. I added in xamal as a reference...
View ArticleAsync adding points on Xamarin.Forms.Maps
Hi, everybody. I have a prolema, can't asynchronously add a point on the map help please public MapPage () { map = new Map { IsShowingUser = true, HeightRequest = 100, WidthRequest = 960,...
View ArticleCan't add Xamarin.Forms package to project
I just installed the Xamarin platform in Windows 8.1, and am trying to implement the Phoneword sample solution in Xamarin Studio using Xamarin Forms. After I create the solution (with "Use portable...
View ArticleHow to get sharp images?
I am working on the Xamarin Forms platform, building layouts in XAML. However, when I size an image to fit the screen, I always have a problem with the image becoming pixelated. It seems that I am not...
View ArticleWebview binding is not working
I have a webview that is bound to an HTML snippet snippet: <h1>Hello World!</h1> <WebView> <WebView.Source> <HtmlWebViewSource Html="{Binding Html}" />...
View ArticleiOS Button text padding
Y'Hello, I'm using the code below to create a Button - nothing too fancy so far, huh? Anyway, I noticed Button doesn't have a Padding styling property, so my button on iOS looks a bit squished (see...
View ArticleRequest: Support Visual Designer for XAML
Greetings, I am a huge fan of Xamarin and especially of the ability to leverage Xamarin Forms to create a "shared" UI for all of my common elements. That said, I find it both frustrating and...
View ArticleUsing App Compat/App Compat theme breaks Navigation.RemovePage on Android
Issue: I am using App Compat and the Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar theme in my Xamarin.Forms Android project. I have a button that I want to go back to a certain page, so I am using Navigation.RemovePage...
View ArticleSome questions about application life cycle
Hi, still new to App development it would be great if you could clarify some points for me. 1.What happens to the active thread of my App when the App looses focus? 2. What if it is in an event handler...
View ArticleAndroid Video Player using Xamarin.Forms
I am trying to get a video player working in my Xamarin.Forms app on Android. I have implemented the iOS version using a ScrollViewRenderer where I add the MPMoviePlayerController (code at bottom, file...
View ArticleSeemingly not possible to validate field-by-field on navigation page
I have some text fields (Entry) on a navigation page and need to validate them as they are entered, rather than validating them all at once at the end. Amazingly there does not seem to be a way to do...
View ArticleHow can I change carousel header (Pivot title) font size?
I have searched forums but couldn't get any solution. I tried writing custom renderer as well but UNFORTUNATELY CarouselRenderer in WinPhone does not expose much.. Even Pivot control has very few non...
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