Communication from iOS/Android project to PCL
How should can my Android activity communicate with the pages of the PCL? I have information from a notification intent that is captured in the Android activity that needs to be relayed to the views...
View ArticleMasterDetail MIA?
This one is puzzling and has me kerfuzeled. I have a masterdetail page that I navigate to via pushAsync from my apps homepage. No exception is thrown,no error in the log...but nothing shows up. Anyone...
View ArticleHow to set label font to semi bold from code
Hello, I use this in Xaml to set the font of the label to semi bold. <Label Text="{Binding Title}" Font="SemiBold,Large" /> I want to make the same, but with C#. I used this myLabel.Font =...
View ArticleDisplayAlert w/o Cancel Button on Windows Phone
Is there any trick to prevent Cancel button to appear on Windows Phone when using DisplayAlert? Is custom implementation via DependencyService the only solution.
View Articlehow to get view element screen position??
EG: i want to know a label "screen" X / Y . how to get this ? i try to get "Bounds" , but it is not position i want .
View ArticleWinPhone TabbedPageRenderer
Hi, I'm trying to set a custom header style for each PivotItem (TabbedPage childs on WP), but I can't figure it out how Can anyone give me a hand?
View ArticleDetect scroll in Listview
I need to implement a event to catch Listview scroll state, similar to the event ScrollStateChanged (native or Mono Droid) because I would like to know the current scroll position to inject more...
View ArticlePopin pages
when my app starts the user isn't logged on so I open a logon page. when they logon it goes to the main page of the app. however how do I remove the logon page from the stack. currently im doing this...
View ArticleColor item selected of a ListView in PCL
Hello, I'm searching about color the item selected on a listview xamarin forms. I didn't find an answer by my self and in the forum. Actualy, I Have : <ListView x:Name="ListViewClients"...
View ArticleTapGestureRecognizer tap position on event
Hello, Is there any way to know tap position on a TapGestureRecognizer event ? It should be quite useful. Thank you
View ArticleOverlay action bar in some page of forms
Hi, We are currently developing an app were one of the page need to have an overlay action bar. The app is an epub/pdf reader. When we are on the reading page, we want the action bar to be shown only...
View ArticleListview selectedItem background color *HACK*
Here the solution I came up with. It is more of a hack, but like many others I needed a solution to set the background color of the selectedItem in the listview. It works with the limited tested I did....
View ArticleShould we have to raise ICommand.CanExecuteChanged on the UI thread?
One of the main benefits of MVVM / data binding is that we only have to update our view model properties and the UI 'magically' updates itself as required. This completely removes the necessity to...
View ArticleCustom ListView Xamarin.Form with Gesture
Hi i have a big problem with my Custom ListView with Xamarin.Forms How to implement internal Gesture without to loose my Binding in MVVM I a have Custom Control in portable in i have un custom control...
View ArticleHow to change background color of ActionBar of Android?
I learned the sample project MobileCRM(Xamarin.Forms) in order to customize the ActionBar(Android)/NavigationBar(iOS). On iOS, the sample created a custom render to implement it; on Android, the...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms with MVC Web API
Hello, I am having a hard time figuring out how to communicate back and forth between Xamarin.Forms and my Web API controller. I am able to hit my controller, but do not know how to use the response....
View ArticleBackground image with carousel effect
Hi. I would like to create a layout with a fullscreen background image and some UI elements on top of it. The twist is this: I would like the background image to swipeable like a carousel, but I would...
View ArticleIs there a multi-line entry control?
Is there a multi-line entry control, a pattern or does it require a custom renderer?
View ArticleDebuging app in simulator IOS 7.1 doesn't run Xamarin Studio
Hi, i'm trying to run my app in the simulator with ios 7.1 but at the moment the apps run it crashed automaticly here is de log that i can take form xamarin studio : Application...
View ArticleXamarin forms navigationdrawer (no masterdetail)
Hi everyone, I'm quite new to Xamarin an Xamarin forms, and I am currently trying to implement the navigationdrawer in Xamarin forms. But I have difficulties to find the start op the program. I am not...
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