Forms to Native and back to Forms and still maintain the Forms navigation stack?
Hi All How can I maintain the navigation stack in following scenario Page 1 on Forms Page 2 on IOS using page renderers Page 3 on IOS is a UIViewController (Lets call this ProcessImagePage) created...
View ArticleTableView Exception 'MeasureOverride of element' when set as main page...
Hi, I am trying to use a tableview within my application, however it crashes on launch every time. I have managed to verify the issue by updating sample solutions to the latest release too. Exception...
View ArticlePorting of Solution
Probably not specific to Xamarin.Forms, but I wanted to keep this in context of my intended project type in case it changes anything. We will be targetting Android and iOS with our App initially, and...
View ArticleWe have 3 problems related Social Networking (FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter)
1) Problem With FaceBook :- Not sure if this is a Component error, or a Facebook App setup issue, but basically getting an 'could not read the username from the me API call' error using Xamarin.Social...
View ArticleSend user to login page if logged out
I am using Parse in my app to handle my users. If the user chooses to log out how do I send them to my LoginView. LoginView -> pushModel -> TabPage -> DashboardView (Press logout) -> Go...
View ArticleSearchBar view slow on performance
I have found that the searchbar view is slow why typing in it compare to entry view. Also when long pressing the backspace button on the keypad, only one character gets cleared whereas in a entry view,...
View ArticleUsing Platform Specifics from Xamarin.Forms
Most of an App we wish to write on multiple platforms is generic and I believe can be handled by the Xamarin.Forms abstractions of the UI. However we need to do three things which may be specific to...
View ArticleArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on some devices
Hi, I've been experiencing issues with ListView (I think?) getting IndexOutOfBoundsExceptions on Android device with OS version 4.4.2. The stack trace is Java.Lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException:...
View ArticlePermission to use location iOS - Forms
I'm using Xamarin.Forms and creating an iOS App who has a background service to get a location each 10 minutes. The code is working, my problem is when I access the App configuration on an IPad. It...
View ArticleCould not load info.plist
Hello, I created a new project. I ran it successfully to my network mapped Macbook air. Then I ran it in xamarin android player. When I tried to run it again on Macbook, i am getting the error. Could...
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ContentPage.BackgroundImage issue.
Hello Got issues with setting ContentPage.BackgroundImage property on android. (iOS works great). Tryin to do it like so: this.BackgroundImage = "/images/some/image/image.png"; But got the error: What...
View ArticleRelative layout vs Absolute layout .
So I am trying to create a home page. I have using relative layout to add a background image , and buttons to navigate to other links. However, I need to use some features of absoulte layout to draw...
View ArticleForms 1.4.2 Entry.Unfocus() leaves the keyboard showing
On Android, my Forms View has an entry control that opens the keyboard when focused, and dismisses it when completed. I have a toolbar item that unhides this entry and rehides it when pressed again...
View ArticleBUG?: WIndows Phone 8 MasterDetail page doesnt color right with theme manager
After using Theme Manager for windows phone 8 and changed it to light theme the Menu shows up as a black square, are there any known workarounds for this?
View ArticleLooking for samples with restsharp or httpclient
Just started working on my Xamarin.forms project, and need help with RestSharp or HTTPCLient. Looking for sample projects with functionalities like login, etc. Any help?
View ArticleConditional XAML
In one of the classes on XAML I remember seeing where we can set the property of an element (say Label's color) depending on the value in databinding - WITHOUT using converters. Something in XAML (like...
View ArticleHybrid app built with XamForms, accepted on iTunes Store
Just FYI really. We had a AngularJS based web app, the whole SPA deal. We packaged it up using Xamarin.Forms using a WebView with a custom renderer for the web view for both iOS and Android (customer...
View ArticleGet native view from Xamarin.Forms view (need to remove cell separator line...
I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to get hold of the underlaying native view (or renderer) from within my iOS and Android specific projects. What I actually would like to do on both platforms...
View ArticleGet DatePickerDialog from DatePickerRenderer.
Hi all. I can't find Android DatePickerDialog in DatePickerRenderer. Where is it? My main task is to add custom button into this dialog. («Cancel» or «Today», nevermind). Is there any other solutions?
View ArticleScrollable Image
Hi, is there a way to have an image that is larger than the view frame be scrollable vertically and horizontally? If I need to custom render it, what methods would I need to override to achieve this...
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