Maps: Location and Pin representation
Hi, until 1.4.1 the representation of the user's position was a blue pulsating circle on iOS, both simulator and device. With 1.4.2 this changed to a red pin, which is bad as now there're just red pins...
View ArticleApplication Crashing with No exception getting caught
I am very near to publishing the app-however some testing has exposed some very critical crashing. I have a main menu from where user can navigate to screen A. When user navigates to screen A and hit...
View ArticleBest practice for Xamarin.Forms design patterns and approach for Navigation
I am trying to abstract away the navigation that is called into a separate manager, so I can alter the toolbar before moving onto the next page and handle a workflow scenario. I noticed that I cannot...
View ArticleShow activity indicator in App.cs
I am writing out some json to database when OnSleep event in App.cs fires. Is it possible to show an activity indicator or some busy indicator till this process of writing json to a remote database...
View ArticleThe difference between Task.Delay and Device.StartTimer at short delay (timer...
I'm developing a plotting application which needs to plot a physiological signal at 300 Hz. I have elected to draw 12 data points every 40 mSec. using the 'FastLineSeries' of the 'Syncfusion' charting...
View ArticleXamarin Studio vs Visual Studio?
I know there are a few older topics on this (or maybe newer ones I overlooked?) but curious what opinions are now for a person wanting to jump (back) into multi-platform mobile dev including WP8+. I am...
View ArticleFacebook auth with Facebook app
Is there a plugin or script somewhere that can auth through the facebook app instead of the web view, the different auth components use.
View ArticleUmlauts Issue since 1.4.2.6359
Hi, since I updated to 6359 (from 1.4.2.6355) I get strange umlauts, e.g. in label texts. This did work all time. As I didn't change anything else (at least I guess so), I believe it's due to the...
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Get Java.Lang.ClassNotFoundException on the out of box-project on Forms
I have an Indie account for Android only and wanted to try Forms for Android and iOS (and updated to iOS license also if Forms is what if hope and think it is). So created my first Forms project and...
View Articlesessions in xamarin.forms for cross platform application
I am using Restsharp to consume a web api, however i need to store the user id's. Do Xamarin.forms have sessions or anything to store the id's and User name? Or Can I store them without using the...
View ArticleSwipe Gesture Using Xamarin.Forms
Hi All, Can anyone help me out in implementing swipe gesture for stack layout using Xamarin.Forms... I want to change the content inside a stack layout with swipe(Right & Left)..Can this be...
View ArticleApp Size
The app size i developed in iOS and Android is 4-8 MB but if i developed the app in Xamarin it is between 25- 40 MB App Size. Is there any way to decrees the size of the App?
View Articlei have my login page, but don't know how to proceed after that.
After the users login credential is verified, i have used DISPLAYALERT for now, but i need to direct the user to a new page named MoreOptions. What type of page should be MoreOptions? Content page? or...
View Articleright way to call a method
Is this the right way to call a method by passing the parameters? LogInButton.Clicked += (sender, ea) => { new UserRepository().OnLogInButtonClicked(loginInput.Text,passwordInput.Text); };
View ArticleAndroid and IOS how to full screen? Hide the title bar and status bar system
Android and IOS how to full screen? Hide the title bar and status bar system
View ArticleVideo Player
I searched a lot for a video player for Forms. I think it should be implemented by CustomRenderer. But I couldn't find a complete documentation for it. I need a player in my listview. Also I want to...
View ArticleApi15 FontSize crash
Setter Property="FontSize" Value="Medium" Working on Api21 and 17. Crashing on Api15. Even if there is written> Wrote stack traces to '/data/anr/traces.txt' There is nothing to pull> 0 files...
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