Entry validation
Is there a way to validate an Entry control in Xamarin.Forms that reflects the behavior seen in the EditText (Android) control when its Error property is set? Thanks in advance!
View ArticlePage Inside a layout
Hey, In Xamarin.Forms, Layout takes views as children and page is of type VisualElemet so technically, you cannot put a page inside a layout (I understand that). However, is there a way to go around...
View ArticleExportRenderer contracts in PCL
If I create a control that is rendered differently between platforms using ExportRenderer, can I add a method that can then be overridden by the class marked for ExportRenderer? Example: Class inside...
View Articlewin8 target for xamarin.forms?
Is there a plan to include windows 8 as a supported platform for xamarin.forms?
View ArticleForms iOS and NuGet HttpClient
I am using the portable HttpClient from NuGet in my PCL project. <package id="Microsoft.Net.Http" version="2.2.27-beta" targetFramework="portable-net45+win+wp80+MonoAndroid10+MonoTouch10" /> I...
View ArticleWhy does the `ItemSelected` method execute twice when touching a ListView item?
My ListView has the following handler attached. ((ListView)MediaList).ItemSelected += (sender, args) => TriggerMedia((MediaViewModel)args.SelectedItem); And when TriggerMedia() is run, it runs...
View ArticleTabbedPage issue - does not look like the demos
I am currently attempting to work on my first Xamarin Forms app, and am really impressed with it. However, I am having an issue with the TabbedPage that is frustrating me. The attached screen shot is...
View ArticleForms template adds a lot of code
Starting to play with forms , Created a new project from the template and added zero line of code to it and click debug, got following error. How can I have 1992686 bytes of user code if even I have...
View ArticleHow to refresh the BindingContext of a page after a child page is popped off...
Hi all, I'm implementing an MVVM solution and for the requirements of the solution I need to share a portion of the view model on multiple screens. As I add new NavigationPages onto the stack, all the...
View ArticleHow to consume with SOAP web-services
I have a silverlight application, SOAP web-services worked well,but when I add it in PCL project，the result of callback returns null.
View ArticleRegarding internal components in Xamarin.Forms
Many of us have suffered from the inflexibility of Xamarin.Forms. As a temporary (yet evil) solution, we are using Mono.Cecil to modify the Xamarin.Forms assemblies to expose these hidden components. A...
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UI on Android, overdraw area
Hello, I am discovering Xamarin and a question just popped up in my head: how is it possible to manage correctly the UI done in XAML with Xamarin.Forms in order to optimize the overdraw areas? We...
View ArticleHow to set different height for GroupHeaderTemplate and ItemTemplate?
I want to set variable height for my list both header as well as items in the list. I have set HasUnevenRows = true, but when I set a value for RowHeight that value sets the height for both GroupHeader...
View ArticleDevice ID / UUID
Is there a method to easily retrieve the unique id of the device? Or do we need to manually handle each platform?
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ListView row height
Hi everybody, I want to use ListView in my app, and on every row i need picture on the left, and title + text on the right next to the picture, aligned to center. I have basic template done (below),...
View ArticleMessagingCenter
I am fairly new to Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms. I am currently trying to use the MessagingCenter to pass a object between my ViewModels. It was working earlier but doesn't now. When I Try to debug it...
View ArticleCan I develop Forms for iOS on a Windows Xamarin Studio 5.1 installation?
Hello, We have always programmed on Xamarin Studio on a Mac, where we opened the Storyboard with XCode. Now we are planning on a Xamarin Forms application for iOS and Android. We see that, even with...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms 1.1.1 Released!
Xamarin.Forms 1.1.1 Released! 1.1.1 is a bug-fix release. There are few features in Xamarin.Forms 1.1.1 over 1.1.0. As always we welcome all and any bug reports both here or in their own thread....
View ArticleContainerFromItem equivalent
Hi all, I'm trying to get the view object in a listview from my viewmodel object. In WPF I think it's something like: _listView.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(selectedItem) How can I do that...
View ArticleTableView in Xaml
Does anyone have a link to or some basic sample code for a TableView in xaml. Thanks.
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