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Hide action bar on initial screen on android
Hi All I'm facing an issue which several people have faced but no workaround posted by others worked for me. Have a look here! The issue is obvious, I have no content on the main screen except the...
View ArticleHTML Editor Control availablity for Xamarin.Forms
Hi all, Is there a readily available HTML Editor Control available to be used in Xamarin.Forms? We need to Have HTML Edit capabilities on a mobile application of ours. Thanks, regards Jörg Fischer
View ArticleSwipe between list items detail view page
I have a list view on view XAML on SelectedItem i go to another view which is ContentPage for detail of the item selected now i want to swipe left for next item of list open in detail view , like gmail...
View ArticleUpdating to Forms 2.0.0 throws Layout cycle detected. Layout could not...
Updating to Forms 2.0.0 throws Layout cycle detected. Layout could not complete exception in WindowsPhone and WinRT. In Android and iOS, I dont experience any crash, but it makes a strange behavior to...
View ArticleBest approach for Item Display/Edit pages
Hi, very often we are faced with the requirement to have a page that displays the details of an Item (e.g. a contact) where you have a ActionBar button that switches the page into edit mode. What is...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 / Windows phone 8.1 / Windows 10 related issues
Hi I have a published application built on Xamarin.Forms for Android and iOS and unrelated version for Windows Store. Recently I dove into migrating my Windows Store version to Xamarin.Forms. Windows...
View ArticleXamarin Forms slow loading view.
Hi, Currently I am trying to retrieve 40 images via a local stored database. When I recieve the images I am putting a opacity overlay over it and store this in a absolute layout. But this appears to be...
View ArticleDesign issues with xamarin forms 2.0
Hello all, I have 1 issue with the design. In my project, I have Reset Password View. There are two ways to go at this page. When I m going from 1st way then the design of this page is not looking...
View ArticleAfter implementing Material Design for Android, crashes app on start
Hi there, I implemented Material Design in my Xamarin.Forms app using both links, however in both cases when i run app, it crashes. Please advise...
View ArticleException ImageSource.FromFile to navigate between pages
public partial class Page1 : ContentPage { bool isCalled = false; public Page1() { InitializeComponent(); } void OnButtonClicked(object sender, EventArgs e) { Navigation.PushAsync(new Page2()); }...
View ArticleIs there an off-the-shelf component for handling sharing/printing of text...
In my Xamarin.Forms app, I need to support printing and sharing. The sharing bit on Android is easy enough, but is there a component available for handling printing and/or sharing across platforms...
View ArticleHow to set the widths of labels dynamically inside a list View Row based on...
I have a List View with header and multiple rows. I can able to fix the Headers based on Screen Size. But I unable to fix the Data based on Screen Size. Here is my code. Row LayOut: public class CICell...
View ArticleHow to hide progress indicator only after view is updated?
Hi, in my application some operations are time consuming and require a progress indicator. I use Acr.UserDialogs.ShowLoading/HideLoading for this. The problem is, often the progress indicator is hidden...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms 2.0 issues
I just recompiled my project with Xamarin.Forms 2.0 and found Application.Current.SavePropertiesAsync is not working as expected in "Release" mode. I used the following code to save the login email...
View ArticleUnable to find a version of XF compatible with...
I have 5 packages (Xamarin.Android.Support....) that can be updated, but I have this error (for all packages...) Attempting to resolve dependency 'Xamarin.Android.Support.v7.AppCompat (= 23.1.1.0)'....
View ArticleHow to simulate an event (touch or otherwise) to restart idle timer
I have an application that utilizes a sled on an iPod touch for scanning of barcodes. I can scan barcodes and the screen updates on success of the web service call but the device doesn't see these...
View ArticleBind MenuItem Text to viewmodel Binding
I have a Language dictionairy declared at viewmodel level. In my Xaml I have a listview with a datatemplate +viewcell. In this viewcell i have declared a menuitem and i now want to bind the text...
View ArticleXamarin.Mobile.dll
Hi is anyone able to fetch GeoLocations using Xamarin.Mobile.dll? can you post a sample code here? I mean I don't want the co-ordinates from the Activity Class.. I Just need a plugin Class which Can...
View ArticleFile Picker not working
Hello i'm using acr-xamarin-forms to allow user to select file in my app. I'm using following code var device = Resolver.Resolve (); var mediaPicker = DependencyService.Get (); if (mediaPicker == null)...
View ArticlePicker is too slow, why does Xamarin set SelectedIndex each time item added?...
So the picker is extremely slow. Ive attached a screen shot. So in one view of ours it took 22sto load. I removed the .Add of items to the pickers and our load when down to 3.6s per the profiler. Why...
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