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What is the preferred way to catch all unhandled exceptions on Xamarin Forms?
Do they need to be caught at each application level or can we use a PCL event? Any samples would be great.
View ArticleHow to launch a Forms PCL solution in Xamarin Studio with the VS emulator for...
I have the VS emulator for Android installed. In a shared Xamarin Forms solution, in Xamarin Studio, there is a menu item "Run With" where I can launch the solution with the VS emulator. But in a PCL...
View ArticleHow do i render the contents of a xamarin forms (portable) control in custom...
This is my code so far (Works, but I can’t figure out the missing bit): Shared project: using System; using Xamarin.Forms; namespace Solvum.SiteTracker.Mobile.XamarinForms.Framework.Controls { public...
View ArticleRESX Localization using a Shared Project (not PCL)
This article only covers how to do localization with a Core library of type PCL, I however, am using the Shared project type as the Core library, and it does not support .resx files, only .resw files....
View ArticleIs it possible to disable all input?
Hello. I'd like to be able to temporarily disable all input on either a page or for the entire application to prevent the user from clicking anything during certain animations. Is it possible to do...
View ArticlePushModalAsync followed by PushAsync crashes.
Hello everybody, First of all, I just want to let you know that I am an IT student that just started to use xamarin and I already love it. However, while i was following this tutorial...
View Articlehow to navigate between pages using mvvm - doing it on viewmodel
I have a xaml called category and in the listview, I display list of categories. When i select a category in the list I want this to navigate to details xaml by using category Id. is it possible using...
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Bug with FormsAppCompatActivity and MasterDetailPage on Android 5.1
On android 5.1 detail page have strange padding on top.
View ArticleAnnouncing the "Xamarin.Forms Kickstarter" guide
Dear Xamarin.Forms community! My team and I are working on a kickstarter guide for Xamarin.Forms. Our objective is to give an introduction to developers that might be new to the field of cross-platform...
View ArticleSpannable string with custom renderer
Hello. I have problem and I can't understand what is wrong. 1. I have MyButton : Xamarin.Forms.Button 2. I have custom renderer: protected override void...
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Toolbar area stays visible when navigating to a page without toolbaritems...
Hi, I'm having some trouble with the toolbar on WinPhone. When navigating from one ContentPage with toolbaritems to another without toolbaritems, the second page shows a black area (where the toolbar...
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How do you toggle between two views?
We have a ListView with two possible item layouts, how do we toggle between them? We tried using the IsVisible property, but when the 2nd StackLayout is invisible, it still allocates its height onto...
View ArticleUI Debugging?
Is it possible to do UI debugging when using VS 2015? I guess on xamarin android player will not work for it. how about visual studio emulator?
View ArticleiOS MPMoviePlayerViewController goes blank after a few seconds
I'm having a weird issue with MPMoviePlayerViewController. public override void ViewDidLoad() { base.ViewDidLoad(); var f = new...
View ArticleBoolean Property and StreamImageSource result of converter not recieveing a...
Hey there, Me and the team decided to upgrade to Xamarin Forms 2.0 soon after it came out. We started seeing two problems that we have not been able to fix and no one else seems to have. Namely: 1) We...
View ArticleSetting shadow on detail page in MasterDetailPage
I am trying to recreate this UI. Screenshot I'm using a MasterDetailPage. In the existing app the background of the master page and the detail page are white. To separate them, the detail page has a...
View ArticleSearchbar = fullscreen in landscape on android, How do i prevent this?
I have a view that contains a listview with a searchbar in the listview header. When in landscape focusing the searchbar the search "field" desides to go fullscreen. Is there anyway a custom renderer...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms Windows Pre Release Error
Hi, I have many problems with the Picker and Webviews on Xamarin Windows Phone 8.1 so I have updated and tested all the pre-release versions to see if I can make the web view work as expected or the...
View ArticleSetting Cookies in a WebView
I received a request this morning to share how I set cookies in a webview so here it is, hope it's helpful. It's worked for me so far but feel free to comment on it if it can be improved. First, you...
View ArticleVisual Tree Helper
Hi, Is there an equivalent of WPF's VisualTreeHelper? I need to loop through all the visual elements of a page. Thank you
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