Sqlite best practice - single DB connection for app or open/close connection...
Hi, I've seen various coding samples where people either open and hold a SqliteConnection for the life of the app and others were the SqliteConnection is opened and closed. The Sqlite documentation...
View ArticleDependencyService not needed for SQLite anymore?
Hello. I was looking at the "ToDo" sample app (https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/tree/master/Todo) and noticed that the SQLiteAsyncConnection is created in the "Core" application and...
View ArticleBlur a shape in SkiaSharp
I need to blur a shape in SkiaSharp because i'm placing this shape behind another shape to become a shadow effect. So my question is. How can I make a shape blurry?
View ArticleCan I do an ajax-like reload on XForms?
I'm a PHP developer, and I'm learning C# and Xamarin.Forms in the last months. I'm halfway through the development of a App and (although I'm working around it) kinda needed a way to do an ajax-like...
View ArticleXaml error “System.Reflection.AmbiguousMatchException: Ambiguous match found”
It was working correctly when I had Xamarin.Forms 2.5 installed, but since I upgraded the Forms nuget package to 3.2 I'm getting this error on my Xaml pages. Any ideas?
View ArticleError while distributing to Google Play
Hello, I have a strange error while distributing my archived project to Google Play. It says: "Signing packages failed. Could not read as a zip file". Any ideas how to solve it? Thanks in advance.
View ArticleNot able to run ios ui test on the simulator after last 18 september 2018...
I wrote a few ui test in March/APril using NUunit 2.6.3 and Xamarin.UITest 2.2.4 , and I was able to run them on debug mode using the ipad simulator on my mac and also on a physical test ipad. Today,...
View ArticleSigning packages failed. Could not read as a zip file.
Hello, I am having a problem signing apk in my project. I already clean and rebuild several times and run VS 2017 on admin with no avail. Please see below the ide logs. Thank you!...
View ArticleHow to access Picker.Focus() from a view-model of a xaml page?
I have a picker which presents some values to chose from. and I read online that to open this picker from a button click I have to use .Focus(). But the problem is it seems that .Focus() is accessible...
View ArticleIssue while populating ListView with data that comes from an url
This app gets the device coordinates, what can take some seconds. Then it makes a request to an url that does some calcs and echoes a string where each property is separated by ',' and each item by...
View ArticleSpam is getting out of hand
Title basically says everything. The spam from whoever these guys are is getting seriously out of hand. It is nearly impossible to use the forum with the amount of "shitposting" going on. Can't the...
View ArticleXamarin and .Net Standard
Hello everyone, I'm a .Net developer and I'm looking forward to starting in Xamarin. But I have some doubts, see below: 1 - We are trying to reuse the domain of our web application in a mobile...
View Articleblur background effect for frame
Hello, I need an effect to blur the background for frame or stacklayout. Is there a native render that can do this for android and ios? Thx
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My UWP won't build with the .NET Native Toolchain
I'm trying to build a UWP application in release mode x86. The "Compile with .NET Native tool chain" is checked I get the error - "The specified task executeable "ilc.exe" could not be run. The...
View ArticleSimulatori IOS on visual studio 2017
I'm testing my APP made with xamarin.forms on IOS with a MAC connected remotely. in the visual studio the iphone 7, 8, x, xs simulators have disappeared. the target is IOS10 ... What could be the...
View ArticleHow to resolve Xamarin Android linking problem
My Xamarin Forms Android app works fine in Debug. But in Release, when deployed to either the emulator or to a device, the app is "stopped" after showing the splash screen. The debug log shows these...
View ArticleWebview does not load css and images on iOS
It does load the css and images on Android, not on iOS however
View ArticleCan't build on android phone and getting the following errors.
I'm trying to compile my project on my android 8.1 phone but it doesn't build because of 2 errors. I'm using Visual Studio Community 2017 version 15.8.7. The project is using Xamarin.Forms version...
View ArticleProblem with applying scale to content of ScrollView
I have a scroll view (Orientation=Both) which has Grid as content. The scroll works perfectly when the Grid is not scaled When I set scale on Grid (in button handler), the grid is scaled correctly but...
View ArticleWeird non-tappable dead spots on viewcells in iOS
I'm having this really weird issue where certain parts of view cells in iOS become non-tappable while the rest of the cell does respond to tapping. These "dead spots" vary in size, shape, and location...
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