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Livereload problem with Reactive libraries
I am having errors below when I try to use livereload. I believe that it is conflicting with Akavache library i am using. Akavache is referencing System.Reactive (>= 4.0.0) while Livereload...
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Design-Question: I need some input for better representation
Hello all, I am writing an app, which contains a userprofile. The user shall be able to give some data about himself. It works and this is fine, but I think the UI is boring and not very appealing....
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Hi, I have a label, and I want the label to display different things depending on the bool value returned from a function in my ViewModel. Let's say the function is called getConnection() - how do I...
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How to set a different color for statusBar and navBar
Hello everyone, Here is a screenshot of what I'm trying to achieve. Right now, I've a generic style which set both background and foreground color. Something like this <Style...
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Xamarin.Forms vs Flutter
Hi all Thomas Burkhart has posted an interesting small review to Flutter (a relative new challenger to .forms) including his personal compare between .forms and Flutter. As the link was included in the...
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Hi , How can i redirect the user to update the app on playstore or appstore if the current version does not match the latest version available. I am trying to use:- if (currentVersion ==...
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Hi all, Considering the XAML bellow, I have a page (StorePage) and ListView which has a DataTemplateSelector that renders different templates. Inside I have a button that must call a command declared...
View ArticleCreate drawing
Hello I have a simply problem, but I guess the solution will be not simple... I have an image on a Page <Image x:Name="testImage" Source="testImage"></Image> And I would like to put a...
View ArticleDisable listview animation on selected
How can I disable the animation of listviews/cellview when they are clicked on. The animation is fine on Android, but on iOS, when the listview item is selected, there is a grey background as well as...
View ArticleForceUpdateSize slows UI
Hi! I have this strange issue, i have a ViewCell inside a ListView that expands when you tap inside, calling cell.ForceUpdateSize() , this works OK, but if you it repeated times (say, like 3 or 4...
View ArticleIs it possible to use the Google/Bing map app to define a route and then...
I know I can launch the Google/Bing map app from a Xamarin.Forms app. What I would like to do is let the user define the route using use this launched app and then the Xamarin app would download the...
View ArticleAdmob Rewarded Video support for Xamarin
Hi! I've been struggling for some time to implement rewarded video ads in my app, using Admob network. I've managed to display a video ad on android, but I simply can't have the listener to trigger the...
View ArticleVS 15.8.7 - Solution rebuild after any XAML change
Is it just me/us (my department)...? Since updating to latest Visual Studio 15.8.7 any time I make a change in XAML I have to do a Solution|Rebuild, otherwise just a regular F5-Debug goes into an...
View ArticleAdmob Rewarded Video Ad not shown
I am having trouble showing rewarded video ads from admob in my Xamarin.Form app on Android. I am using this component. https://components.xamarin.com/view/googleplayservices-ads I am able to request...
View ArticleAndroid app in release Proguard enabled and Linking SDK Assemblies java.exe...
I have seen this issue all over the web. I have tried a lot of ways to resolve this. Changing the java heap size. Putting in a Proguard.cfg. Updating Proguard. All these things haven't worked. I have...
View ArticleHow to use DropBox component in Xamarin.Forms App?
Hi, I'm a big fan of Xamarin.Forms and wanted to extend a Forms project I'm currently working on with a DropBox component. But as soon as I add the component from the component store the project does...
View ArticleMultiple screen support
I am working on one application, the design using xaml need to support for phones and tablets of android and iOS devices. How can I achieve that please share your views and knowledge here. Thanks in...
View ArticleHow to close the current page and go back to the previous page
It looks a simple thing to do, but I didn't find anyway to make it. How can I close the opened page and get back to the page I opened before it? I tried Navigation.RemovePage(this); but it didn't work,...
View ArticleHow can i navigate back to the last selected TabbedPage?
Hello, I am working with latest xamarin.forms 3.2 & prism and i am using TabbedPage. When i try to navigate to any page view within the tabs, it works normally with "NavigationAsync &...
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Tab rendering changed between Forms 3.2 and 3.3
I just tried updating to Forms 3.3 and noticed the tabs in my app changed. I haven't been able to find any mention of these changes. The only two properties I have explicitly set on the TabbedPage are:...
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