Getting started with Xamarin, help appreciated.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29174695/getting-started-with-xamarin-forms-app Thanks a lot! And Xamarin plz... Youre not making it easy to get started with development.
View ArticleI cannot delete the navigation bar at bottom of the screen
Hi I am using Xamarin Forms - Content Page to show a list of items. When I test on Android 4.x the list shows it items correctly until the bottom of the screen. But when I test on Android 5.x appears a...
View ArticlePopModalAsync with MasterDetailPage is clearing the navigation stack in Forms...
I'm using the MasterDetailPage for an app where we want the overlay menu, but after upgrading to release 1.4.0 of forms the PopModalAsync now clears the entire navigation stack instead of just the...
View ArticleWhen is ImageSource actually loaded
I've been doing a bit of work with images and I'm wondering when exactly is an image loaded when using ImageSource? Is it at the time of assignment of the source, time of binding, time of use (Image...
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Xamarin.Forms 1.3.5-pre1 Released
Important Notes Device.StartTimer callbacks should now return on the main thread for iOS. If you still have issues please let us know Entry/Editor/SearchBar's inside a ViewCell now set the input mode...
View ArticleBinding expression == enum?
Hi Xamarin experts, Is there a way to use an expression on a binding to an enumerated type? Example- is there a way I can do something like this? IsVisible="{Binding Path=(GameState ==...
View Articlesearchbar with empty string
Hi. Using searchbar, the SearchButtonPressed event is not raised if I've an empty string... How can I rise the event also with empty string? Thanks Alessandro
View ArticleLinkedIn How to store Skills?
Hey guys, I'm retrieving the Skills from LinkedIn, and somehow need to store them. This is how I'm currently storing the LinkedIn Data: `[Newtonsoft.Json.JsonProperty ("id")] public string id{ get;...
View ArticleIs there a way to create a Horizontal Scrolling list of Buttons in Forms?
I would like to create a scrolling list of buttons in Xamarin Forms like the example below for iOS. Is this possible in Forms at this point?...
View ArticleBinding to child member of BindingContext
Hi, I'm wondering if there's a way to bind to the child of what I'm bound to already. Example, if my codebehind class has "BindingContext=this", in xaml, will I be able to bind to say,...
View ArticleHow to prevent hardware back button close application?
I have a Master/Detail app. On Android, the "hardware" back button tends to just close the app and go to whatever OS screen was up when I launched it (home page, app drawer, etc.). If my Detail page...
View ArticleXamarin Forms adding Service Reference to PCL - no XmlElement in System.Xml...
Hi there, I've created new Xamarin Forms Project (with PCL library). Now I would like to integrate it with my web service - so I added Service Reference to it in VS 2013: Simply add Service Reference,...
View ArticleWhat's the deal with "Xamarin.Forms.Label.Font is obsolete"?
I'm using 1.3. My question is simple: how do I get this warning to go away? var nameLabel = new Label { Font = Font.SystemFontOfSize (NamedSize.Large), HorizontalOptions =...
View ArticleOverride UI back button
Hi Guys, I'm searching for a proper way to override the action fired by the UI back button (like OnBackButtonPressed for hardware back button). I need to add a method which cancels HTTP request when...
View ArticleGroupShortNameBinding - can jumplists just be disabled?
I'm grouping a listview by date. It works great, except for a few jumplist issues: 1) On Windows Phone, the jumplist always renders as square tiles. It's not quite big enough to put a date in "dd/MM"...
View ArticleApp.xaml wasn't generated. Was it supposed to be?
Hi Xamarin peeps, I have a nice little project started, but I'm wondering why my application wasn't generated with an app.xaml - that way I think there's a way to put some global button styles in there...
View ArticleApp is not showing local images when run in simulator
Hello guys, I have this <Image Grid.Column="5"> <Image.WidthRequest> <OnPlatform Android="30" WinPhone="48" iOS="30" x:TypeArguments="x:Double" /> </Image.WidthRequest>...
View ArticleMinor Issue: Spelling Error
In 1.4, the Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.XamlParseException error reads: "Position 14:8. resources in ResourceDictioanry require a x:Key attribute". That's not the way ResourceDictionary is spelled. Is this the...
View ArticleIs there a way to detect that a UriImageSource did not load an image?
Um - subject says it all.
View ArticleMessagingCenter.Subscribe Multiple Call
I found my code Multiple call ,anyone who can help me find the reason MessagingCenter.Subscribe<SelectCitiesViewModel,string> (this, "Province", (sender, arg) => { Province = arg;...
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