Drawing layered animation
Hi All I am wanting to create a simple animated control and am a little stuck the best approach. Basically it would involve displaying a progress bar (simple) and updating a text value that is...
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Is there a way I can add a on changed event in xaml to the checkbox or loop throu the list view and see what checkboxes are checked?
View ArticleOpenGlView (memory usage, on pause... events) to dispose nicely
Hello, I wish to know how much OpenGL memory is used and how to catch onpause, ondestroy events to do the things right. Any idea ? Thank you.
View ArticlePoint of Tap?
Hi, Is there a way to calculate the location the point form which a tap even originated in relation to the view/containing view? In short, I have a list view, when a user clicks on a cell I want to...
View ArticleHow to make local Sqlite items show up in offline condition
I'm working through a Xamarin Forms PCL Sqlite / Azure Mobile Services sync example, named TodoAzureSync.iOS. The Azure Mobile sync part is working fine. The problem is - when I pull my network...
View ArticleCaching for PSL ?
I'm looking for a NuGet solution that will do caching for our Forms apps. Suggestions? This one looked good, but isn't PCL: https://github.com/perpetual-mobile/SimpleStorage
View ArticleButton.BackgroundColor feedback when clicked
Setting BackgroundColor on Button has a colateral effect of not changing aynmore on pressed/clicked to feedback the state. So I wonder how are you solving it? One solution that immediately comes to my...
View Articlehow to define a grid for Ad control at bottom of page
Hello all, I'm trying to define a grid that places an ad control at the bottom of the page. I have this: <Grid VerticalOptions="Fill"> <Grid.RowDefinitions> <RowDefinition...
View ArticleLabs ImageButton Source Android great, WP does not work
I have the following code succesfully working on Android: <controls:ImageButton BorderRadius="0" Grid.Column="0" Text="Sales" BackgroundColor="{x:Static local:Colors.Blue}" TextColor="White"...
View ArticleINetwork doesn't work for https urls?
IsReachable() doesn't work for any urls containing http or https, however will return false for a site which does run on https protocol. Is there any work around, to test connectivity to a secure site?...
View ArticleCreate App Package Disabled in VS2013
Hi I have a shared project and even when I select the Win Phone project in the Solution Explorer the Create App Package is disabled. Any ideas?
View ArticleMulti-column ListView in Grid layout
I don't know if this is a legitimate bug or if I'm misusing the Grid layout, however I cannot seem to be able to have a ListView in a grid that spans more than one column. Is that a library limitation?...
View ArticleAndroid - An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary
When I try to deploy my Xamarin.Forms app to my emulator I get the following deployment error message. An element with the same key already exists in the dictionary I spent a couple of hours...
View ArticleDeploying apps to TestFlight no longer works
Hi, I'm a new user of Xamarin.Forms and in my trial period. 2 days ago I deployed my first app to testflight and I was able to download the app on my phone. I could even easily push some updates. I...
View ArticleCan I used Xamarin.Forms in a Win7 enviroment?
I have Win7, VS2013, Update 3. I tried to create a Xamarin.Forms projects in VS2013 and the Windows Phone project would not load. Error message is something along the lines of "cannot load project...
View ArticleHow to navigate from a UIViewController to a Forms ContentPage IOS
I currently need to navigate from a UIViewController to a ContentPage in IOS. I am creating the UIViewController by calling the following code through a dependency: [assembly:...
View Articletargets 'MonoAndroid,Version=v4.4', but the package does not contain any...
Adding 'SimpleInjector 2.6.1' to Demo__.Android. Could not install package 'SimpleInjector 2.6.1'. You are trying to install this package into a project that targets 'MonoAndroid,Version=v4.4', but the...
View ArticleXamarin Forms comptaibility
Hi, I've not coded much in X.Forms up to this point, so this question might not make much sense but all of a sudden the availability of the iOS OS versions to simulate with have become reduced from 7.1...
View ArticleProject don’t compile anymore after install latest Xamarin-updates to Android
Hi all Unfortunately, I have installed the latest Xamarin-Updates to Android: Xamarin Support Library v4 Xamarin.Android.Support.v4 - Version 21.0.0.0-beta1 Xamarin Support Library v7 AppCompat...
View ArticleAfter renaming xaml file, getting error "this name does not exist in the...
After renaming xaml file, if a put x:Name for any control and use it in .cs file I am getting "this name does not exist in the current context". Any idea why this error ?? I put x:Name...
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