Retrieving binding information!
Can I retrieve binding information from a given element? If one have in xaml < Entry x:Name="entry1" Text="{Binding MyInfo}" / > I would like retrieve (programatically) that the element 'entry1'...
View ArticleMasterDetailsPage Menu Icon not showing up on iOS
Hi all, I have an app with a MasterDetailsPage that I use for the main navigation. I am using the "hamburger" icon for my menu icon. On Android this works great. I set the Icon property on the MenuPage...
View ArticleHow to initialize Entry.Text after it is rendered and shown on screen.
I'd like to initialize an Entry with a text value but only after it is fully rendered. The reason is, if the Text property is initialized before rendering, the Entry grows (its Width increases) for...
View ArticleXamarin Forms Maps - Multiple maps on navigation stack behaving oddly
I am using Xamarin Forms Maps in my project, and currently debugging on an Android device. This has been a project I've been working on for a while, and while my source code has not changed, all of a...
View ArticleMultiple map pages behaving strangely
I have a page with a map and some markers. I just got all of this working on Android a couple of days ago, but for some reason starting today, the following occurs. When the user clicks on a marker, I...
View ArticleHow to change user input from 0123 to 01:23
Hello everyone. I have some entrys in a xaml file with numeric keyboards and I want to make some kind of validation check and change for the input. So if someone types in 0122, afterwards it should...
View ArticleSymbol icons
Hi, is there any symbol icons in xamarin forms like the one Microsoft has for save, settings, favorite star, delete and things like that? Thanks
View ArticleConfused about Xamarin.Forms.Portable
After I created a solution using Xamarin.Forms.Portable, I don't see any XML files for me to change. I thought the concept of using this project was to allow me to modify one single UI and it will...
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Showing Secondary ToolBar items - best way?
I use two devices for testing my app: Phone(Android 4.0.3). It has a hardware button menu Tablet(Android 4.2.2). It has no hardware button menu. This is code my ToolBars <ToolbarItems >...
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Quickstart-guide to start developing with Xamarin(.Forms)
Hi all I have created a description (.pdf) how to start work with Xamarin(.Forms) and Visual-Studio. It contains a lot of information's for starters but also information's, like "how to use the forum",...
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Xamarin.Forms.Labs Peeps!
@KevinFord @rmarinho So I used NuGet to get the package added to my project; it also added ExifLib. I set up a class to utilize the camera from my app, based upon your Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Sample app....
View ArticleScrollView won't work in work within images
Hi all, I put six images into a scrollview, they are fixed size and inside the scrollview, there is in Grid to put them into three rows. For phones which have larger screen, that is no problems, but in...
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Bound Field in Xamarin Form Grid
Hi, I need Bound Field for XFGrid. If i click on any field in my grid the clicked field should change to textbox. I Created my XFGrid through Code. private void CreateGrid() { XFGrid grid = new...
View ArticleGetting a grid of buttons without the spacing in between.
What do I need to do to avoid the default spacing between two buttons? I have tried setting padding to 0, BorderWidth etc. I am using Grid like this: in ctor: InitializeComponent(); var grid = new Grid...
View ArticleIOS - ScrollView doesnt work on device
Hello, I got the following Problem - Currently I am trying to output a Datagrid (Zumero) in a Stacklayout located in a ScrollView. <ScrollView > <StackLayout x:Name="Scroll" Padding =...
View ArticleHow to add the content of a Frame as a Subview in an UIView? (Add Views as...
I'm using the RoundedBoxViewRenderer example from here (http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/custom-renderer/) and I updated it to inherit from Frame and not BoxView because...
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How can I MVVM-Compliant modify dynamically the contenttype of a custom control?
Hi, I am trying to make an own control with a headerline and a contentarea. The Problem: The Content is not always a String which I can use with a label. It could be quite every possible contenttype....
View ArticleWhat's the proper way to do push notifications using XF?
Howdy folks, I'm playing around with xamarin for vs and I'm wondering what the proper way to do push notifications should be? I'm gravitating towards using AWS SNS and I found on github an AWS SDK for...
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Using imported views in xaml
Hello, I'm trying to create an autocomplete search bar using Forms.Labs' AutoCompleteView. But I'm always getting "Type AutoCompleteView not found in xmlns". The xaml and cs files use the same class...
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Master detail app menu icon sizes
I make a master-detail app in Xamarin.Forms. Everything is great, i have one annoying problem. Images in master menu appears perfectly on IOS: ...but on Android images are huge (only the first row...
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