Windows App Won't Change Orientation
Hello everyone! I am working on my first Xamarin.Forms app and I noticed that when my app is deployed on the Android emulator, I can rotate the emulator and watch the view update correctly. However,...
View ArticleCalling PCL method from Custom Renderer
Hi, I have a ScrollView, I've made a custom renderer for it, with added UIRefreshControl for pull-to-refresh feature. However, I need to somehow notify my PCL class to load new data. Here is a Refresh...
View Articledetecting non-GUI thread
Is there way to know if current thread is not main UI thread and a switch required? Similar to Dispatcher.CheckAccess in WPF/Silverlight, CoreDispatcher.HasThreadAccess in WinRT or...
View ArticleOrientation change Win Phone in xaml
Is there a way to either have different views for different orientations or to have logic similar to OnIdiom, but for Orientation rather than device? thanks.
View ArticleToolbarItems show up on Android but not on Windows Phone
I have the following code snippet for adding items to the toolbar. The item shows up for Android, but not for Windows Phone. What am I missing? Title = "Create Account"; ToolbarItems.Clear(); if...
View ArticleHow does SQLite.NET component fit-in
I wonder how would SQLite.NET fit in this new release? Which project template should I choose in order to share service code?
View ArticleHow to bind data to ListView control in Xamarin.Form using Async
Hi, I am new to the Xamarin mobile application development. I am creating one application using Xamarin.forms. I am using PCL to share the code across 3 devices. In the PCL I have created ContentPage...
View ArticleDynamically manipulate UI at runtime using Xamarin.Forms
Is there any way to dynamically manipulate UI at runtime using Xamarin.Forms ? Suppose i have a page where i have 2 button and 1 imageview. So if i click any button then i want to remove(not hide) the...
View ArticleVideo: A Xamarin.Forms Deep Dive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsiSssFAQ6A In this session Michael Ridland takes a in depth look at Xamarin.Forms and answers the hard questions. Watch this session if you want to know: How the...
View ArticleCustom renderer -> iOS UITableView
I'm trying to create a custom renderer for iOS for use in my .Forms project. The Android one is already working. This renderer attempts to convert my "WallView" into a UITableView, but I end up with an...
View ArticleDynamically manipulate UI at runtime using Xamarin.Forms
Is there any way to dynamically manipulate UI at runtime using Xamarin.Forms ? Suppose i have a page where i have 2 button and 1 imageview. So if i click any button then i want to remove(not hide) the...
View ArticleUsing Xamarin Forms without Navigation Page
HI, I'm trying to set up a project that uses a mix of Xamarin Forms pages and standard Android Activities. As a part of this, I planned to use my own navigation system. Similar to this post, I can't...
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Is there an equivalent to this in Xamarin.Forms?
See picture. essentially this is a radio button control. Android, it seems, uses actual radio buttons. But neither seem to be usable via Forms?
View ArticleXamarin.Forms with Cocos2D-XNA ?
There are ways in which Cocos2D based scenes can be integrated with say a view controller in iOS (or activity in Android). What about Xamarin.Forms? Is that possible currently, and if yes - a quick...
View ArticleMaps
Hi all, IsShowingUser = true does not seem to work for Android. The following code : var map = new Map (MapSpan.FromCenterAndRadius (pin.Position, Distance.FromMiles (0.3))) { IsShowingUser = true };...
View ArticleOversight, or intended behavior?
Sometimes, when doing a binding, you don't want to indicate a subpath...you want the binding to be to the whole item. Then, in a converter class, you "build" the information you need to, accessing all...
View Articlehow can i send/pass a string value from View to ViewModel in Xamarin forms...
Hi All, I have a ViewModel to binding the value of picker based on another picker selected value by using MVVM pattern logic. I just need to send a string value from a view to viewmodel. I don't want...
View ArticleUsing TableView to mimic default lists
Hi, I am trying to mimic the default behavior of lists in various platforms. Using ListView, I seem to be unable to get the behavior the same as native apps (e.g. the "depress" animation of Windows...
View ArticleCorrupted nav bar when pushing new page from ItemSelected handler
Howdy, I have a tabbed page, and from one of the pages in the tabbed page, I have a ListView where I want to go to another page when the click one of the items in the list: installation.ItemSelected +=...
View ArticleInset text via LabelRenderer
Hello all, I'm trying to create a control in Xamarin.Forms that looks similar to Messages on iOS. I'm trying a few different approaches and the current approach requires me to inset the text in a...
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