Cross Platform Maturity and Complexity?
I was reading the Forms documentation and found that you shouldn't use forms if there is a heavy reliance on the underlying O/S functionality. I am wondering what is the definition of underlying? I am...
View ArticleHttpClient post over https
Hi Can anyone explain why the following code works perfect on the iPhone 5 and 6 simulators, and on my device (iPhone 6) but fails on the iPhone 4s simulator and on another person's device (also iPhone...
View ArticleObjective-C exception: CALayerInvalidGeometry
I get this quite often since I work with the picker control (I load data asynchronously, assign it to the picker datasource and so on). I get this in different cases, sometimes I the error occurs,...
View ArticleVMDisconnectedException when trying to watch a property in my VM (during debug)
Hi, I'm getting a similar exception when I'm trying to watch a property (ObservableCollection) inside my VM. Is that a confirmed bug? Any workarounds?
View ArticleHelp with Geolocator.
Hi. I'm developing an app that has to get the location of the user, and depending on this, ask an api to get the nearest places. I'm currently using this plugin to get the position: var locator =...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms and Fire Phone?
Hey! I'm looking for a device to test android apps (made with xamarin forms) and the fire phone is on sale at a really really good price. (check it out it's like 200$) Will the apk xamarin.forms...
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Conditional styles?
Before I make custom renderers, I just wanted to double check that there is no way to set the style of a control based on conditions? For example, I want three background colors on my Button: normal,...
View ArticleCan change enable state of ToolBarItem by Command.RaiseCanExecuteChanged at...
I couldn't change enable state of ToolBarItem by Command.RaiseCanExecuteChanged at Xamarin.iOS. Wrote XAML below. <ContentPage.ToolbarItems> <ToolbarItem Text="Basics" Command="{Binding...
View ArticleCached UriImageSource sharing violation
All my images are loaded from the internet and cached using the XF ImageSource & Image functionality .... thanks for that! However, I get an intermittent error where it appears that it is trying to...
View ArticleTabbed Page with Header
I have a standard Tabbed Page. Is there any way in Windows Phone and/or Android to show something above the tabs besides just the Title?
View ArticleCannot fully extend the background image.
I have an unusual padding on my entire layout on the android player. The background image should fully extend but instead, it didn't. public class HomeScreen : ContentPage { public HomeScreen () { //...
View ArticleImage with AspectFit in ScrollView problem
Hello, I want to show image with AspectFit and my main aim is to show the image with HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" which cover the whole width of phone's screen and the height of image will be...
View ArticleHow to bind Time from TimePicker?
I declared DateTime checkin and DateTime checkout in the view model and I use TImePicker to let user choose time, when I wanted to bind the time using TimeProperty it does not work as what I did in...
View ArticleCarouselPage Embedded in TabbedPage
I'm currently working on an App that has a TabbedPage with 3 tabs on it. One of the tabs displays a bunch of images, so I'm using a CarouselPage to display them. The XAML for this page looks like this:...
View Articlescrollbar inside TableView (Xamarin.Forms 1.4.1)
Hi all, I'm using TableView to display some information of user on screen. var tvAdditionalInfos = new TableView { HorizontalOptions = LayoutOptions.FillAndExpand, VerticalOptions =...
View ArticleSample app which demonstrates Navigation using Xamarin Forms Labs
I am working on an app which was working on older version of Xamarin Forms and Labs, after upgrading the app the navigation in the app doesn't work. Is there are any sample app which demonstrates...
View ArticleIs there a page event when a layout cycle has completed?
Hi, I have a custom cell that contains a grid with 2 columns, I want to get the width of the first column once the layout cycle has completed, but before the page is displayed. The OnAppearing method...
View ArticleLinker and Unity IOC
I am trying to run my app in Release mode and Link All Assemblies for a smaller app size. However, after adding Unity and some dependency injection I get insta-crash with Link All Assemblies. Build...
View ArticleEmbed page in page
Hello, I would like to "embed" a page in another page. Analogous to Control.ControlCollection.Add in Windows Forms. In my example I have a statusbar, a footer and a navigation on different Pages. But...
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