Probably a dumb question from a new user :(
Hi, I am missing something and perhaps someone can tell me what I am doing wrong. I am basically just trying to run one of the sample applications for Xmarin Forms. I am doing this using windows and...
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In my project I have the following structure TabbedPage main page ContentPage child page within there Map within the child page On the Map, I have a property called "Hike". On the TabbedPage I set the...
View ArticleProblem with migration to 64-bit Xamarin.Forms
I have an application with Xamarin.Forms, I've migrated to the new 64-bit support and now I have the following errors in the AppDelegate class of iOS project
View ArticleVisual Studio Complete Freeze
Anyone getting this error: iOS, Xamarin Forms. Sometimes it just freezes in debug mode. If you wait about 5 minutes you'll get this error below. Error 3 There was an unhandled exception trying to...
View ArticleCreating a custom control with a Content property
I'm trying to create a control that will host other content but the content doesn't layout properly. My custom control descends from Grid and has a number of UI elements (it's the common shell for a...
View ArticleList view binding in Xamarin.Forms
Hi, I am developing sample application using Xamarin.Forms. Here we need to bind the JSON data(List) from WCF Service to ListView . But i could not able to bind the data in Listview. Please find the...
View ArticleInstalling an exisiting database from Assets in Android: Here's How
To copy an existing database from the /Assets folder to a writeable location, you can use this: using System; using System.IO; using Common.Android.Dependencies; using Common.Interfaces; using...
View ArticleTricky: tabbed pages all pointing to same class?
This is tricky. I have a mainPage with tabs. Let's say they tabs go to page1, page2, page3, but in fact all three are identical except for (a) their title and (b) a parameter that is sent to the...
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Problem with TabbedPage having other NavigationPages (Video and Source inside)
Hi, I have a problem with combining TabbedPage navigation leading to other NavigationPages. Because its hard to explan just with text, I made a short Video about it: You can also find my example...
View ArticleToolbar Items not appearing in Action Bar (Android)
Hi, I'm trying to create a toolbar for my app, but the toolbar items are not appearing. Right now I'm only working on Android, where this manifests as an empty ActionBar. I've tried adding the items in...
View ArticleBug in Rendering text color in xaml when involving a command. (iOS only)
I'm writing in Xamarin forms, and when I define a TextColor property on a Button, and a command, then the color I defined is overridden in iOS and the default color is used. This is the button I'm...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms.Grid
1- How to set BackgroundColor for Grid with linear-gradient ?? 2- How to set fix height for the Grid ?
View ArticleMkbundle - Error 2 decompressing data for...
Hello everyone, i am a new to xamarin forms. I have installed XamarinStudio, XamarinIOS on Mac. But i am having this error, and i have no idea what causing this. Target _CompileToNative: MTouch Task...
View Articledisplaying xamarin.forms as modal popups from mvvmcross app
hi, say I add set of xamarin.forms to portable library which is part of an existing mvvmcross application. what would be a way to use/display them from the app as modal dialogs wherethe size and...
View ArticleListView using FrameRenderer Out Of Memory Android
I've got a very basic application that is populating a ListView with about 100 items using the following data template: <DataTemplate> <ViewCell> <ViewCell.View> <Frame...
View ArticleUpdated to Unified support in VS 2013 still only see i386 as a iOS Build option
Is there a migration utility for VS? After a manual upgrade in my Xamarin Forms project for Unified support in VS 2013 Update 4, when I go to the properties for iOS Build I still only see i386. What...
View Article[v1.3.3 -pre2] [Android] Has something happened to the relative layout?
Has anything changed with the RelativeLayout between 1.3.1 stable and this release? I ask because after updating, my text labels have disappeared. I've attached two screenshots, my code is below....
View ArticleCustom ContentView renderer since post 1.3.2.6299-pre1
G'day, I have a custom ContentView renderer that does not work in Xamarin.Forms > 1.3.2.6299-pre1. The symptom is that the controls in Element.Content are not rendered. Also, The ViewRenderer's Draw...
View ArticleRelease mode build fails for iOS
Hi, I've been banging my head with this error: MTOUCHTASK: error MT2002: Failed to resolve "Xamarin.Forms.BindableProperty...
View ArticleError when using MySql.Data.dll to connect to MySql DB in iOS Xamarin
Hi , Im new to Xamarin and mono developments .Im building an iOS app using Xamarin on Macbook Pro and i want to connect to a mysql DB . so Ive downloaded the MySql connector from the below link :...
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