custom renderer navigation bar disappears
For my project I needed to have something to the effect of a master detail page but with the possibility of a sliding menu on either side of the screen. So I wrote my own and added custom renderers....
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Hello I try to use Picker view in PCL library and it is worked well on Android (invoking nice popup with options), but on Windows Phone 8.1 I have strange behaviour - if picker has less than 6 items...
View ArticleBuilding Interfaces: XAML vs C# Code
Hello everyone! I have a question, I recently started using Xamarin, I come from Windows and then I'm used to using XAML and C #. I noticed that many people prefer to use C # to build interfaces...
View ArticleiOS Entry Predictive Text bug?
I'm seeing a weird problem in my iOS app. I have a login page with entries/textboxes for user name and password. When I type in a value into the username, for example, and it suggests the word via the...
View ArticleXamarin Forms for Mac Apps?
Some of the apps are really famous because of apps that are accessible on desktop, be it mac or windows or web, for example Telegram, Slack, Whatsapp. One downside of going completely native mobile...
View ArticleTableview size/remove bottom "border"
I have a Tableview in a StackLayout with a ListView after it and there is always a gray space between the two. The Tableview is a form that causes the Listview to be filled with results when populated....
View ArticleWhat would you use to do a tutorial inside app? (Like How to use it)
Hello, I was wondering on How to do a "first time in app tutorial" to explain some functionalities and other stuff. I was thinking in some animations or something like that. What you guys would use to...
View ArticleiOS Button text padding
Y'Hello, I'm using the code below to create a Button - nothing too fancy so far, huh? Anyway, I noticed Button doesn't have a Padding styling property, so my button on iOS looks a bit squished (see...
View ArticleRequest: Support Visual Designer for XAML
Greetings, I am a huge fan of Xamarin and especially of the ability to leverage Xamarin Forms to create a "shared" UI for all of my common elements. That said, I find it both frustrating and...
View ArticleUsing App Compat/App Compat theme breaks Navigation.RemovePage on Android
Issue: I am using App Compat and the Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar theme in my Xamarin.Forms Android project. I have a button that I want to go back to a certain page, so I am using Navigation.RemovePage...
View ArticleSome questions about application life cycle
Hi, still new to App development it would be great if you could clarify some points for me. 1.What happens to the active thread of my App when the App looses focus? 2. What if it is in an event handler...
View ArticleAndroid Video Player using Xamarin.Forms
I am trying to get a video player working in my Xamarin.Forms app on Android. I have implemented the iOS version using a ScrollViewRenderer where I add the MPMoviePlayerController (code at bottom, file...
View ArticleSeemingly not possible to validate field-by-field on navigation page
I have some text fields (Entry) on a navigation page and need to validate them as they are entered, rather than validating them all at once at the end. Amazingly there does not seem to be a way to do...
View ArticleHow can I change carousel header (Pivot title) font size?
I have searched forums but couldn't get any solution. I tried writing custom renderer as well but UNFORTUNATELY CarouselRenderer in WinPhone does not expose much.. Even Pivot control has very few non...
View ArticleXamarin User Controls
Hello. For my project I need to animate an image by rotating. I thought that since quesa ruora image that must be repeated in various parts of my application would be useful enough to pack in a custom...
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Xamarin.Forms PCL (not shared) app + photos + Azure Blob Storage = ???
OK, after weeks of researching, reading and trying all sorts of methods, I've come to the conclusion that I'm going to have to use the HTTP Client to interface with the Azure Blob Storage REST API....
View ArticleStackLayout ItemTemplate
Hi! For my project I need to declare an itemTemplate in a stackLayout. With the traditional xaml I could declare something like that: < StackLayout Orientation="Horizontal" VerticalOptions="Fill"...
View ArticleSystem.InvalidCastException: Object must implement IConvertible - Xamarin...
I'm having this exception every time I try to set a footer on ios: System.InvalidCastException: Object must implement IConvertible. at System.Convert.ChangeType (System.Object value, System.Type...
View ArticleNavigation Page within a tabbed page
Hi All, I have the maximum allowed icon tabs (5) and still have more pages to display. Basically what I want is what twitter does with the find button on the iOS platform. When you hit the button a...
View ArticleListview Image > An unhandled exception occured.
A listview with DataTemplate: <ListView.ItemTemplate> <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions> </DataTemplate> </ListView.ItemTemplate> pictures are in the album...
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