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View ArticleNavigation with Animation in Xamarin Forms Labs
I am using Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Mvvm navigation to navigate to different view models. Recently Xamarin Forms introduced animation as part of its Navigation stack. Is there any update when this can be...
View ArticleUnhandled Exception in Listview-Android
I have a list of items in my listview with a button to add the item as a favourite. When user clicks this button, I send a message to my view model with the item from list. The view model then awaits...
View ArticleIs this possible with Xamarin.Forms?
I'd like to write a Xamarin Forms app that embeds camera capabilities - not just take a photo, but the ability to take multiple photos (much like the native camera app). My app would see and...
View ArticleAction bar
I am new to Xamarin Forms. I know how to develop an action bar in Android using ActionBarActivity. I cannot find how to do the same in Xamarin Forms. It seems that NavigationPage will display the...
View ArticleMove view up when keyboard shows
I am working on a Xamarin Forms PCL project and was wondering how to move a view up when the keyboard appears to avoid covering the controls on the page. Can we do this in Forms or is this something...
View ArticleEnumerate over elements
Is there a way to enumerate over elements on a Xamarin.Forms ContentPage and Children's children? It seems easy if you have a StackLayout as a main layout and you have elements and SubLayouts. But if...
View ArticleSection Header Color Android
Hi, couldnt really find an answer yet. Is it possible to change the section header text and divider color of a tableview? Thanks
View ArticleWindows Phone project missing on add new project
I have Xamarin installed on multiple computers and I'm experiencing different behavior on each. On my main system creating new cross-platform projects (shared or PCL in Visual and Xamarin studios)...
View ArticleFontFamily broken in 1.3.2.6309-pre2
iOS Fonts no longer work in this version of XForms : 1.3.2.6309-pre2 Reproduction: MainPage = new ContentPage() { Padding = 20, Content = new Label() { FontSize = 50 , FontFamily = "Courier" , Text =...
View ArticleUsing Custom Fonts in iOS project
Hi, I am wanting to use a custom font in my iOS version of a Xamarin.Forms project. I have been following the blog post on the below link and the author says that I should go in to the info.plist file...
View ArticleDetermining Zoom Level in a Map
We are working with a Map control using Xamarin forms and found this http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/18901/set-map-zoom-level to zoom the map in. To zoom the map we can use the following var...
View ArticleSelect multiple images from gallery (iOS,Android)
Hi guys, I'm wondering if there is a way to select multiple images from gallery Android and photos from iOS i tried to use for iOS ELCImagePickerViewController library but I didn't understand how to...
View Article[Xamarin Forms - Android] App Crashes when I try to select text from an Entry
On every page of my application (even a new Page) I have a strange behaviour, when I try to select text inside an entry the application crashes with no particular exception, here's the Output...
View Article[Xamarin Forms - Android] App Crashes when I try to select text from an Entry
On every page of my application (even a new Page) I have a strange behaviour, when I try to select text inside an entry the application crashes with no particular exception, here's the Output...
View ArticleAndroid strangeness with GestureRecognizer and Nexus 9 and Nexus 7
On the Nexus 9 and Nexus 7, the values returned by MotionEvent.GetX() and MotionEvent.GetY() are larger than they should be. On other devices, it's fine. I've gotten this down to a reproducible bit of...
View ArticleRelease Cycle
I am very concerned at the approach Xamarin is taking with their release cycle for Forms. 1.3.3-pre before we even see a stable 1.3.2? This product needs to move faster than the Platform. It is a...
View ArticleToolbarItem appearance iOS
I want to add a ToolbarItem with a custom image to the toolbar. The code I use to accomplish this: ToolbarItems.Add (new ToolbarItem ("Hint", "ToolbarIcon.png", () => { //Do something })); The image...
View ArticleDashed Line in Xamarin Forms
Anyone know a good way to handle dashed lines in Xamarin Forms?
View Articlewhat is the best place to set autolayout bounds when trying to emulate the...
code currently looks like this but I'm not sure where the proper place to put it is so that I don't get layout cycles or something. It emulate's an Auto, *, Auto row grid. var parentHeight =...
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