How to disable swipe in TabbedPage?
Hi everyone, I want my TabbedPage only be able to change pages on eg. a button press, not through the user swiping the screen. How can I do that? I searched for methods to override but didn't find...
View ArticleStrange issue with CarouselPage (full code example)
I've been battling with the CarouselPage control for some time now (apologies for yet another thread, but this one deals with a specific issue and I'm very close to having the control working exactly...
View ArticleMap Pin(s) Details Displayed Without Tapping
Anyone know of a way to get the details of the pin to be displayed once initialized without haven't to tap it?
View ArticleXamarin Forms Labs Geolocator not working on iOS 8?
Has anyone been able to get the geolocator working on iOS 8 in Xamarin Forms Labs?
View ArticleHow to have a common toolbar
Whats the best way to have same toolbar items present in all the views and then assign a command to them. Currently I have a base class called ToolbarView and all my views inherit from this abstract...
View ArticleHow to change the cursor position of Entry or Editor programmatically?
Hi, I'm trying to port my iOS code and Android code into a unified Forms version. However, I did't find any API that could allow me to change the cursor place in an Entry or an Editor class. Is there...
View ArticleToolbar Items Display issues
Hi everyone, I thought I'd share some of my lessons learned to workaround an issue that exists currently with Xamarin Forms Toolbar Items. The first thing to note is that Android seems to be the...
View ArticleUsage of datepicker?
I want to show only the month and year . Font set to black, how to achieve
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Does anyone know if Xamarin Xaml's dialect supports ICustomTypeProvider
..the title pretty much says it all
View ArticleDatePicker Formats
Is there documentation for the different format options for a DatePicker when using Xamarin forms. In the one of the guides I found I could set the Format ="D" Is there a list somewhere that shows the...
View ArticleViewCell Tapped event is not recognised if tap any blank space inside the...
Hi All, I have created TableView,in that each section is an ViewCell.when I Tap a ViewCell where the blank space is available its not recognizing the Tapped event. If I click on any of the controls...
View ArticleCarousel page rendering complex layouts is very slow
I have a carousel page that has up to 12 child pages in it. Each child page is essentially a product page which shows a couple of pictures and some text about the product laid out nicely. I'm using...
View ArticleRotation on Android
Hi all, We have gotten a small slew of issues on Android due to rotation. This is primarily caused by us screwing up the templates and forgetting to add a single parameter to the attribute for the main...
View ArticleProblem with CustomeRenderer for Button after upgrade
Hi, After upgrade to the newest version of Xamarin.Forms I am not able to see the text on my custom buttons anymore. Any advices how to fix this? Sample repo is here:...
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Page Navigation under Windows Phone
Hello. I have the following problem: I want to navigate from my ROOT page to PAGE A and then from PAGE A to PAGE B but without keeping PAGE A in the navigation stack. I was able to achieve it by moving...
View ArticleHow to force ListVIew cells to redraw on device orientation change
Hi I have a ListView with the cells being ViewCells with an absolute layout. When I rotate the device, i want the individual cells to re-draw and take into account the change in the width. I already...
View ArticleAccordian controls
Has anyone developed something akin to the accordian control in Xamarin forms. We have a view with a set of 5 text boxes that need to expand and contract based on user selecting an icon next to the...
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Dynamic ViewCell Height in ListView on iOS
Hi, I'm trying to change the Height of a Cell in a ListView when it gets tapped by the user. I get this behavior by setting the Cell.Height property inside an overridden OnTapped method. On Android...
View ArticleDisplaying an image gallery with Forms.Labs
One app I'm making now requires letting the user take pictures, then scroll through the list of pictures and generate a preview of each one they tap on. So far I've got this in in theory, and on iOS it...
View ArticleBest way to size a button in a listview
I am using a custom cell template for a listview. The custom template has button as one of the controls. However the default button size is big for Samsung Galaxy S3 that I am testing on. Whats the...
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