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Under specific circumstances, when a user selects an item in a Picker, I need to move the selection to a different item in the same Picker (it sounds strange, but it makes perfect sense when you use...
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Hi, I have a Forms app with 24 images. The images loaded fine via code and worked fine. I increased the image size and now it runs out of memory on android but is fine on iOS. I know what you are going...
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I am creating a contact us button, but the widthRequest doesn't work on it. However the heightRequest works perfectly. var contactUs = new Button { Text = "Contact Us", TextColor = Color.White,...
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Hello! In a part of my application when the user is pressing the back button, I am saving the data into a SQLite Database (I am saving into three tables). To do this I have written this code at the...
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I have written a custom renderer for iOS for a subclass of DatePicker. The issue I am seeing is that the first time a date selection is made, the bindable property Date is actually been set to the...
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Hey, I have ImageSource in xamarin forms and and UIImageView in Native iOS. I want to set ImageSource to UIImageView somehow. Is it possible? Please reply.
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Howdy, Zoiks... I'm in a day 2 of trying to get my Xamarin.Forms.Android project to build. Upon the last update of Xamarin and my project Nugets, I now can't get the release mode of my project to build...
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Hi, Have you been able to integrate Revealapp with a Xamarin Forms project in XS? I have added the below text to the additional options on the iOS build page, but I get a lot of linker errors, like...
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Hello, I'm really having a hard time to implement this. For our Android (and WP) app we wan't to implement an exit dialog. Since pressing the back button to quit the app could be irritating to our...
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I tried to do the "Hello World" app with Xamarin.Forms under Visual Studio and when I run a build (without debugging) I get a message from Visual Studio stating "Please select a valid device before...
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Hi, I have an MVVM PCL Forms application and I'm trying to create a page that has three selections (A, B, C). Each is a fairly large list and the list of B depends on the choice of A. The list of C...
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