Social Sharing & Android's ShareActionProvider
Hello All, I've been able to implement iOS's UIActivityViewController for social sharing on the iOS side, but I haven't had any implementing an Android Renderer that can call ShareActionProvider. I was...
View ArticleCannot get HybridWebView working - help me plz
I am trying to get a test project working for Android using the XamarinLabs nuget package. Whats the bare minimum that I need to do to get this working? The steps I am using are: Create a new shared...
View ArticleProblem with Forms on the current Beta Channel?
Hey everyone. I tried running a pretty bare-bone File -> New Forms app (1.2.3.xxx) in the Beta Channel, but Android seems to have trouble deploying. I'm not specifically targeting Android 5.0...
View ArticleXamarin Forms - Issue using ViewModel with Commands and View with SetBinding...
Please find below code that I have written in an attempt to use a viewmodel with Command method, which then is connected to list.SetBinding, which doesnt work ViewModel public class TestViewModel1 :...
View ArticleScrollView custom renderer Android
How can i get a reference to Android Scroll View in custom renderer? For example, for Button i'm doing var nativeButton = (global::Android.Widget.Button)Control; But there's no Control property when...
View ArticlePosting to Facebook
I'm trying to use the example at https://components.xamarin.com/gettingstarted/facebook-sdk to post to my Facebook wall, but it keeps coming back t.IsFaulted = true. In other words it's not posting. I...
View ArticleMultiple pages with the same name
I tried creating two Xaml pages with the same name (different folders, different namespaces) but it gave an error and could not compile. Error: Could not find a part of the path...
View ArticleWhy picker does not show items?
** Editor VS 2013 ** Target: iOS 6.0 I am exprimenting with a picker. The picker definition as follows var picker = new Picker() { Titel = "Test", VerticalOptions = LayoutOptions.Fill };...
View ArticleCan you bind BoxView width?
I have a BoxView which is acting like a progressbar (solid color full width) and have a timer which polls every 250 ms to update the vm property but the width doesn't update when bound....
View ArticleCustom BindableProperty - what am I doing wrong?
Hello, I have a custom ViewCell subclass called MessageDetailCell that I am using to display text messages in a ListView. I been successfully binding properties of the various child views...
View ArticleCan we declare Global XAML styles like we can in Android AXML?
I'm trying to follow the "StaticResource" thing but am not getting very far. I'm also not all that familiar with XAML in general... still, I can't quite figure out how to style XAML globally like we...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms.RowDefinition cannot be converted to target type:...
I keep getting the above exception when trying to run the android version of my app. it is occurring on the following line in mainviwe.xaml.g.cs public partial class MainView :...
View ArticleCreating a ActionBar as in Native Android For more options
I would like to know if there is any form which can be used to create more options using Xamarin Forms, which is available in Native android which is ActionBar.
View ArticleNested scrolling/swiping support
I am trying to use a horizontal ViewPager (for showing some images within a ScrollView with vertical scrolling. Unfortunately, the ViewPager never receives the appropriate events and thus does not...
View ArticleHow to add UIWebView into ContentPage?
Hi, I am new here... still using the trial version of Xamarin. I find that Xamarin.Forms very easy to use, but now facing problem to insert UIWebView into ContentPage. My main purpose - I have created...
View ArticleNull Reference Exception in...
I was getting a Null Reference Exception in Xamarin.Forms.Labs.iOS.Services.Media.MediaPicker.SetupController(). The source code for the method follows. private static MediaPickerController...
View ArticleIs layout badly broken or am I just not getting it?
Hi, I've been trying to wrap my head around what is necessary to dynamically add controls and have the system correctly update the layout, and I'm having a lot of problems with it. Either I'm missing...
View ArticleScrollView detect touch up
I am trying to customize a scroll view to meet my particular set of requirements, and what I would like to do it detect when the user stops scrolling or otherwise takes their finger off the screen. I...
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