Access properties of nested view in xaml
Hello together, I'm searching for a xaml way to access the properties of a view in a view. Currently I'm trying to create a UserControl which consists of an AbsoluteLayout which should contain a...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms -> Xamarin.Android & Xamarin.iOS
Hello I have worked for almost 5 months with xamarin forms and xamarin for my app. Basically I have finished everything and it does run, however the xamarin.forms part is much too slow on older...
View ArticleInit ListView with scroll position at end of list
I wonder if it's possible to init a ListView with the scroll position at the end of the list? I have a messaging like app and when I open up a conversation I would like to scoll to the end. I have a...
View ArticleAbsolute Layout with Image+StackLayout width fill
Greetings, How can one set an image width to fill inside an AbsoluteLayout? Aspect and HorizontalOptions don't seem to work. I need to draw an semi-transparent StackLayout over this image and have them...
View ArticleXamarin.Mobile on PCL/XamForms - Camera, GeoLocation, etc
For anyone that is interested, I have a PCL wrapper library around Xamarin.Mobile that will allow you to access the following services (below) in your PCL shared library. It can be found at:...
View ArticleLaunchScreen.storyboard appears black
Hi all! Im using Xamarin Forms in Beta and experiencing an issue in IOS. Whenever my app launches on my Device or Emulator all i see is a black screen as the Splash Screen.. this started happening a...
View ArticleStart screen on Android
When Xamarin.Forms app is launched on Android, there is a start screen before your main page. This start screen is just the app title with a line at the top. Is there a way you customized it to make it...
View ArticleOnAppearing/OnDisappearing broken with PageRenderer on Android?
When I add PageRenderer for my page, OnAppearing/OnDisappearing start work not correct, both can not be called any time. Everything goes fine when i comment renderer. Is that a bug or I do something...
View ArticleCustom navigation toolbar with Xamarin Forms
Love forms, but the requirement I have for an application is to have an ever-present left-hand icon regardless of platform that goes "home". Can I use the NavigationPage object to still handle my pages...
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Button TextColor
Hello, I have been unable to change the text color of my buttons on Xamarin.forms. I need the text to be white. var upcomingButton = new Button { Text = "Upcoming", BackgroundColor = Color.FromHex...
View ArticleCustom renderer; replacing the native control properly
Let's say I want to use my custom Android button FlatButton from the FlatUI component on the store. I can simply write a custom renderer like this: public class MyButtonRenderer : ButtonRenderer {...
View ArticleNew Xamarin Android Project throws an exception on LoadApplication(new App())...
Throws an exception see the screen print attached. public class MainActivity : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsApplicationActivity { protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle) {...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms from JSON String
Greetings: Is there a way to load a Xamarin.Forms from a JSON String? Thanks in advance.
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Help with a ViewCell in iOS
I've been trying my darndest to get this looking right but can't make it work. Any possibly way this can be solved in Xaml without a custom cell renderer? Here's what I'm attempting in Xaml:...
View ArticleListView refreshing data and expandable ListView Cell
I'm new to XamarinForms and I can't figure something out about a ListView. I have a model class UserSetting. Based on the value of the property UserSettingsType the ListView shows a different...
View ArticleHow to give Linebreak in label of EntryCell
How can I have LineBreaks in EntryCell? <EntryCell x:Name="FacilityNameCell" Keyboard="Default" Placeholder="Enter Name" Label="My first name/middle name/last name" XAlign="End"> I tried using \n...
View ArticlePage Must Not Already Have A Parent Error (Navigation Page)
Hi everyone, i have a navigation page on my app as a tab of a TabbedPage. In the root page i have a button which has pushasync function to push the next page. I can navigate with this button and then...
View ArticleScrollView ScrollToAsync on page load
Hi, I'm trying to make my ScrollView scroll to a specific item after the page has been loaded, I am however not able to do it. I've tried placing the code in the constructor, which doesn't work and in...
View ArticleNavigation + Tab Bar iOS Icons
Hi iOS provide you with some default icons for both the navigation bar and the tab bar.. For example: A share icon for the navigation bar, a more icon for the tab bar. So far I see that in Xamarin...
View ArticleBlurred text on Samsung note 10.1
Hello We are busy with a prototype and we wanted to just try it on a tablet(Samsung). But we found that the text is so blurred - I have attached an image. It looks like if it is device specific, so we...
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