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Text stroke / outline in forms
Hello, I'm trying to show some outlined text in Forms: So far I've tried a few things but they haven't worked out. One of them was the Drawtext method of the NGraphics library which has a Pen and Brush...
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How to make .Forms stable…?
Unfortunately, I don’t think (but hope) that this posting will change things, but I have to write it (the hope dies last). Today (2015-05-19), I personally have 25 filled bugs in Bugzilla 11 of the 25...
View ArticleCannot use 3rd party library Aspose, even though supports Mono
I'm quite new to Xamarin.Forms and using Mono - so forgive me if this query is somewhat backwards, I'll do my best to explain. We use a 3rd party library called Aspose to manipulate Word, Excel &...
View ArticleWhy does layout change when re-push a page?
As an optimisation, for certain pages within my app, I have tried holding on to a weak reference to the page and then re-using the page, rather than re-creating it each time. The code is based on the...
View ArticleHow to create a MasterDetailPage together with a TabbedPage?
Hello, I'm trying to create a MasterDetailPage together with a TabbedPage. I could not get the MasterDetailPage to work from within a TabbedPage. After reading some discussion on the forums, it seems...
View ArticleImage Adapter
How can hold multiple images like the following link? http://s28.postimg.org/bxze64859/Screen_Shot_2015_08_27_at_4_23_09_pm.png One image is above the another like stack.
View ArticleMaster Detail Page Blue Images
Hi - icons used in the Navigation bar of the MasterDetailPage are being displayed with a blue tint on iOS. The nav.png in the code below is a green image but is being turned blue when displayed. Code...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms NavBar in iOS shows last page's title
Whenever I navigate to a page, NavBar title shows two texts. One on back button, the other is my page title. It's OK if the back button shows "back" as text, but it's showing title of previous page....
View ArticleAdd Chat Option
How can integrate chat option in Xamarin? Like sinch... https://www.sinch.com/products/instant-messaging/
View ArticleText in ListView overlaps when FontSize is changed
This is only happening on iOS. I'm using a ListView with Image and Label in a StackLayout. When the FontSize is increased runtime, the Text in label overlaps the next ListView item's Image. However,...
View ArticleVideo story line or thumbnails
Hi I have no idea what's the official name for it, but I'm trying to get a list of images from a video so I can see them and scroll through them. This is for example what we see when we edit a video on...
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WinRT 8.1 crash on Init(e) on Xamarin.Forms 1.5.*
Hi. I have used Xamarin.Forms on Android, WP8.0 and WinRT8.1 When I upgraded Xamarin.Forms from 1.4 to 1.5 WinRTstop working. I got this error when calling Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(e): Error HRESULT...
View ArticleHow to scale the splashscreen on Windows?
In my Windows project, I have included 3 splashscreen images at the sizes specified in the Visual Assets tab of the properties in Visual Studio (1116 x 540, 860 x 420, and 620 x 300). When I run the...
View ArticleAdding Images to a Grid Layout
When looking at Images, is there anything wrong with this: grid.Children.Add(new Image { Aspect = Aspect.AspectFit, Source = "logo.png", }, 0, 1, 0, 1); // Left, Second element I have put logo.png and...
View ArticleDependancyService with BroadcastReceiver
Hi, I can't figure out how PCL project can be aware of returning actions, when IntentFilter is set in a Android (for example) Dependancy. In my case, I want to discover all Bluetooth devices (with...
View ArticleHow to hide navigation bar on Android Lollipop?
On earlier Android versions, up to 4.4 the following code in ContentPage subclass works perfectly: // Hide native navigation bar NavigationPage.SetHasNavigationBar(this, false); But on Android 5.0+...
View ArticleHow to implement the Horizontal ListView using Xamarin Forms?
I want to implement the listview with horizontal scroll in Xamarin forms. Xamarin forms provides Listview but it supports only vertical orientation(default), how can i implement the listview...
View ArticleNested Controls in Absolute Layout
I'd like to nest a frame inside another control, while using AbsoluteLayout. However, it seems that the control always takes the layout options of the parent. Am I doing something incorrectly, or is...
View ArticleOpen new Page
This is probably a really easy answer, but how do I open up a ContentPage from an existing ContentPage (from button click event) without using NavigationPage?
View ArticleTired of the situation
Hello, First let me tell you I'm a huge fan of the Xamarin.Forms concept and I love the Xamarin platform. But unfortunately, as a lot of other unlucky Xamarin.Forms developers, i begin to get tired of...
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