Activity indicator in middle of screen of a scrollview page.
Hi, I have a content page that is a scrollview page. I need to place my activity indicator in middle of the screen. So even if the screen is scrolled, the activity indicator will be in middle of the...
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Grial UI Kit for Xamarin Forms (XAML Layouts)
Hey everybody! If you didn't know it yet. A few weeks ago we've launched Grial UI Kit the first user interface kit for Xamarin Forms. And as you could imagine we want everybody to know about it This...
View ArticleColor issues with ListView at run-time in iOS.
Hi, I am using ListView in my project and setting background color of parent grid as Red in its ItemTemplate when the item is selected and Transparent when unselected. It works fine when we select and...
View ArticleComposite Custom Control based on Xamarin Form components with possible...
Hi there, My goal for right now is creating a composite control which combines a Image and Entry control (XF) and placing these in a horizontal positioning. For now i was planning on using a StackPanel...
View ArticleAbsolute Layout Border
Hi All, Please guide me is it possible to give border and border radius and border color to absolute layout. this._absoluteLayout.Children.Add (_innerStackLayout, new Rectangle...
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 ArticleCustom font for entire app
Hi! Is there a way to use a custom font for an entire Forms app? I have already took a look at "Using a custom font" section on the font guide, but I don't want to set the font for every single...
View ArticleTPL Dataflow problems
I'm trying to use the Microsoft TPL Dataflow library in a Xamarin.Forms app and having some trouble on the iOS side. I can download and install the NuGet package, and I can create code that uses the...
View ArticleCenter image and text on button
Is there a way to center the text and image on a button? I want the image to be on top and text below, both centered on button. I'm trying to use a custom renderer on android like this class...
View ArticleAnimated gif in Image view
I've tried multiple gif files, with no luck Their first frame can be rendered correctly, but does not animate Will animated gif be supported? Or do we have to implement ourselves? What other image...
View ArticleHas anybody solved running on Windows 10 release?
My app runs happily on Windows 8.1 and on a preview build of Windows 10, but on the release build of Windows 10, the XF Application constructor throws the following exception. Has anybody else...
View ArticleHow to use a ListView in a ScrollView with XLabs-PopUp-Control?
Hi all In my App, I have a huge search-page with various (filterable) ListViews (until over 4’000 Items) in a StackLayout and the StackLayout in a ScrollView (as the Page has to be scrollable). The...
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Tag-like on entry
Hi, I need to make an entry with the tag option, like the image: Someone has any idea? I tried with grid layout and changing the position of my entry, but that was awful...
View ArticleHeight of Picker in Xamarin.Forms
I'm using xamarin.forms and displaying Bindable picker on screen. And I'm using following code to update initial text of Picker contol. public class MyCustomBindablePickerRenderer :PickerRenderer { //...
View ArticleTrouble with Navigation Bar in MasterDetail Page
Hi I'm having trouble with the MasterDetail Navigation on the detail page. I would ultimately like to hide the navigation bar so that I can create a very custom look and feel I have tried adding...
View ArticleWebException : Send Failure. Error Writing Headers
I am trying to read some data from a local https server using HttpClient. The code works OK for HTTP. The Exception which is thrown with HTTPS is System.Net.WebException : Send Failure. Error Writing...
View ArticleCustom Fonts
Hi, I'm just going through customizing fonts in Xamarin.Forms. I want to set custom fonts in my entire app. I read many notes, articles, etc, defining about customizing font in Xamarin.Forms, but they...
View ArticleHow to not show separator/divider row between rows in a ListView()
Hi, I'm using Xamarin forms to show a ListView(), everything is working fine, but I cannot find out a solution to not show separator/divider row between rows in my ListView. Someone knows how to fix...
View ArticleHardware Back Button
I've got an app which displays a login page modally when it detects that the user has not logged in. However, the user can still dismiss the login page using the hardware back button, thus returning to...
View ArticlePOLL: What is your preferred location for ViewModel Hydration?
I've been torn on this topic, as I see value either way. Now that I'm working on a ViewModel-First navigation library, I'm trying to decide where a user will typically (in a well-factored code base)...
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