Xlabs - AppName.Android.Resource.Id' does not contain a definition for...
Hello , I want to add CheckBox to my PCL project . For the same I am using XLabs.Forms but when I add these packages I get following Error in 'Resources.designer.cs' while building application. Error...
View ArticleIssues in windows phone project
Hi, I am working on a Xamarin forms project. The solution has three projects which are User Interface, Business Objects and Data Access. UI project is xamarin forms portable project. Other two are C#...
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No easy way to use Custom Font for FormattedString on Android
Custom font in Label is simple by using custom renderer but FormattedString is not the case. Not only I have to read deeply into the assembly of Xamarin Forms to find out the lifecycle behind, but...
View ArticleLabel and \n
Hi, For a Label, Text="A\nB" doesn' t display A on a line and B on a new line but "A\nB". How come? the doc says to use \n for new lines so I'm lost. Tks. François
View ArticleCustom Control base on Xamarin Forms control Custom Children
I have a custom content control based on Xamarin forms views the problem is that when it renders and when It tries to get its Custom Children the container is null The Control xaml is atached and in...
View ArticleHow to update xaml UI on push notification received
I am registering for push notification on my own server as a backend. Successsfully sending messages & receiving push messaged on android device. But I am unable to update my .xaml UI after push...
View ArticleHow to jump from Native Page back to Xamarin.Forms
I got 2 forms, 1 is Xamarin.Form (Xamarin.Forms.Platform.WinPhone.FormsApplicationPage), 1 is native windows phone page (PhoneApplicationPage). Xamarin.Form will navigate to native windows phone page...
View ArticleCannot Navigate between pages
Hi, Am not sure what I am doing wrong. I tried to follow the introduction documentation for Xamarin.Forms but with no luck. I am not getting any errors, I just can't navigate to the next page....
View ArticleXamarin studio New project - MobileApps template does not contain project for...
I installed Xamarin studio on a win 8.1 pc. I was expecting the File-New-Project-MobileApps template to create three separate projects for each of iOS, Droid and WinPhone. I am only seeing the iOS...
View ArticleXamarin studio on iOS New project - MobileApps template does not contain...
Opened Xamarin Studio on my mac. Created a new Xamarin.Forms project, select MobileApps(Xamarin.Forms Sahred) template. I am supposed to see three projects Shared proj, iOS and Android. I am only...
View ArticleHow do I properly use a class in .Droid project from PCL?
Hi Xamarin Experts! I created a class called AudioRecordAndPlayback and it's sitting in my .Droid project. I'd like to use this class in my PCL - how do I reference it? I guess I need to use condition...
View Articlehow to handle animations with mvvm in forms?
What's the best way to do this? presumably trigger them by an event. use triggers? events on the code-behind file?
View Articlecomposition with forms custom controls, specicially gestures
I've seen one approach to gestures which I really didn't like, as it forces us to extend base classes, which is totally counter to the design goal of gestures (composition). I would like to implement...
View Articlecan anyone post the github code for video player in xamarin.forms?
i want to play video file in my app i saw the renderer code but nothing i can understand i want source code for that can anyone post that?
View ArticleRemoving and reinserting the same ScrollView causes WinPhone exception
Create a simple page with some container, let's say a stacklayout. Add a scrollviewer as a Child of that stacklayout. Remove the scrollviewer (but keep it in memory). Now put the Scrollviewer back on...
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Xamarin Stuido error when creating a new Xamarin.Forms Blank app
If anyone got some error in creating Xam.Forms using Blank App on Xamarin Studio, try updating packages first (e.g. Xamarin Studio). Then try to create first a new Xam.Forms app in VS then open it in...
View ArticleSetBinding does not work on real device (iOS) but only in simulator
I have a very strange problem with Xamarin.Forms. I create a composant named 'ExtSlider' then add into it one Slider and one Label. I set the binding of Slider to ExtSlider (code below) in order to...
View ArticleStyles in shared UI (Xamarin.Forms)
Hi, I read in http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/25612/xamarin-forms-1-3-0-technology-preview Xamarin.Forms from October 2014. "Support styles in XAML and in code" Please let me know where I can read...
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Change background color
How do I change the default backgroundcolor in xaml? setting backgroundcolor in the ContentPage field does nothing... I want to change the color that is greyIsh in this image
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