View has rendered
I've got view with heavy images and it takes a lot of time to load and rendering them. So how can i get if my View has Rendered ?
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Xamarin.Form Control Picker. Changing the way Items are displayed
Hi everyone, I am relatively new to Xamarin, Xamarin forms and I am currently trying to write my own Custom Renderer For the Xamarin.Form.Picker so that I can style each Item in the picker. At the...
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Is it possible to build a MasterDetailPage Custom Control with Bindable...
I am still struggling to get my head around custom controls. Although I must say I havent designed many custom controls in c#. So far I have: public class MasterDetailPage :...
View ArticleCreating a cross-platform (Android/iOS) custom local camera stream
Right now I'm trying to make a cross-platform app that will display the stream from the device camera at all times, and periodically take pictures without user input. I'm already digging into the...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms Searchbar predictive text on android
Have a problem when testing on Samsung note10: For Searchbar with placeholder word "search" in it ( Search.Placeholder = "Search"; )- device trying to predict next word assuming first word is search...
View ArticleCalling a Xamarin Forms app with LaunchIntent
Hi. I have an app built with Xamarin Forms, which I am launching use a LaunchIntent from an app built in Xamarin using CocosSharp. When the Forms app is already running, everything works. When the...
View ArticleTabbedPage - how to cover the currently selected tab-page with another page?
I recently shared this on SO, and thought it may be helpful to share here as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28114302/in-a-tabbedpage-how-can-i-push-another-page-over-the-current-subpage
View ArticleBig thanks to Xamarin
I normally come on the forums to moan about something not working, but I have spent the last couple of days really trying to understand Xamarin forms, I needed to wait for the unified version so I...
View ArticleBlack Opaque Status Bar in iPhone-Only Apps Running on iPad
I'm developing a cross platform app using XF 1.3.1. Due to business requirements the iOS app is currently iPhone only. When it's installed on an iPad and run in 3:2 boxed mode at 2x or 1x resolution or...
View ArticleAdding Content With Lots Of Grids Dynamically Exponentially Slow
Hi Guys, Recently updated our App to 1.3.1, got it to build but seem to be having major delay issues in adding content with lots of grids dynamically. Our app is fairly complicated so i created a new...
View ArticleWhat are parameters 2 and 3 of the MapSpan constructor?
Currently, there is no documentation for MapSpan (http://iosapi.xamarin.com/index.aspx?link=T:Xamarin.Forms.Maps.MapSpan). I was wondering if anyone could clue me into what the second (latitudeDegrees)...
View ArticleActivityIndicator as modal
I have a 2 pickers and a few buttons on a page. Once I click button A, I show an activity indicator till a process is completed. Visibility and IsRunning property of this activityIndicator are bound to...
View ArticleListView - Enabling Different Cell Heights in iOS
As highlighted by Craig Dunn here: developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/working-with/listview/ "On iOS the developer must then calculate (or estimate) the height of each cell -...
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Letter game developed using Xamarin Forms (1.2)
In case this is of interest to anyone... I have released Movie Muddle - a movie name letter game - built using Xamarin Forms 1.2 More details in this thread incl a video
View ArticleSaving EntryCell Values
Here is an Example by Xamarin for showing an Entry Cell on the Screen. But it is missing a major component! What to do with the value of the Entry Cell once it is entered. Will someone please provide...
View ArticleMessaging Center fails on second time of asking
Hi, I've implemented the Messaging Center in a really simple way, and it works the first time it's used. However, if I then back out of the app (using the hardware button in Android), and then re-open...
View ArticleCan you use the Designer with Forms?
Hello I have some questions about the designer, Xamarin Forms and Xamarin Studio. If I create a XAML layout (MainPage.xaml). Can I view/edit this in the Xamarin Studio designer? Or can the Xamarin...
View ArticleCannot add resources file in a Xamarin Forms Shared solution?
In a Xamarin Forms Portable solution, you can add a resx resource file to the forms project via Add>New File>Misc>Resource File. It seems however that in a Xamarin Forms Shared project,...
View ArticleDrilling through a ListView
Hi, I have ListView with the ItemSelected event attached to it. The event fires and in my receiver I obtain the selected ListView item. The data template contains the following structure StackLayout...
View ArticleImage Source Binding Not Work
I'm Using MVVM With Xamarin.Forms.Labs.The Camera Service works just fine.But the binding of the with a ImageSource property on my ViewModel does update the UI in Android/iOS/WindowsPhone.Anyone facing...
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