Xam.Forms.Maps - Zoom level or Similar
I am developing a system for IOS with maps using the "Xamarin.Forms.Maps". This system contains massive pins (~ 34k), the problem is that the performance is extremely slow when Zoom out which visualize...
View ArticleUIViewController and PushAsync with DasterDetailPage
I'm creating a project that follows this excellent menu structure https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/Hanselman.Forms Using this structure could easily adapt my application, however run into two issues,...
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Is there a way to set font size for Xamarin Forms Entry, as there is for a Forms Label?
View ArticleOnBackButtonPressed Question
I have two pages, page 1 is a page that inputs one piece of information and displays a database listview of the resulting information, and page two retrieves data from an xml page and inserts the...
View ArticleImage control not displaying in iOS emulator from remote source
Hello there, I am new to xamarin development. I have some experience with windows phone. Anyway, here goes the issue. I need to display some images from the interwebz. According to the docs, using an...
View ArticleRemove tinting from iOS TabBar
I have a TabBar at the bottom of my view that I dont want any tinting on. As od iOS 7, iOS automatically tints the icons blue and I dont want this to happen. I have tried writing a custom renderer but...
View ArticleConstraint Expression Via MVVM Binding
Hi, I tried the following and it had no effect (and no errors, nothing happened even though the breakpoint in the ViewModel was hit)... In XAML: <Button RelativeLayout.WidthConstraint= "{Binding...
View ArticleHow to make Editor readonly?
Can anyone please tell me how to make Editor, non editable. I am trying to change Editor conditionally from read mode to edit mode & vice-verse. In read mode one should be able to scroll down...
View ArticleHow to customize Xamarin toasts plugin for iOS?
We're working on xamarin forms project. We've used to Toasts Plugin for Xamarin.Forms to display toasts. Mentioned below is the link of plugin - https://github.com/EgorBo/Toasts.Forms.Plugin The plugin...
View Article"Xam.PCL - Settings Plugin" gives error in test project
I have recently added the Xam.Plugins.Settings to my Xamarin forms project and it is working fine - but it is now failing my unit tests. My unit test are agains ta PCL library but it gives the...
View ArticleHow can I cancel Geocoder.GetPositionsForAddressAsync() if it doesn't take a...
I find that the Geocoder calls can take a long time occasionally, so if the user leaves the page that is doing the geocoding before the geocoding is complete, I want to cancel the geocoding. I know...
View ArticleProblem with calling service method in Xamarin Forms
For calling service methods I use System.Net.Http.HttpClient. When I start application in Android and try to call method I get an error message "System.Net.WebException: Error: SendFailure (Error...
View ArticleMap in TabbedPage and Screen Rotation in iOS
Hi, I ran into a problem using the Xamarin.Forms.Maps.Map control in a TabbedPage on iOS. When the map is set to fill vertical and horizontal on a child tab page, if any of the annotations have their...
View ArticleCustom TabbedRenderer to set tab text color on Android
I found an iOS render: http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/17811/tabbedpage-tabbar-background-color-tint but I can't seem to find a similar Android rendered to set to set the tab text color. I found a...
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Xamarin.Forms Intellisense not Working on Visual Studio 2015 clean Install
Hi, I'm trying to write a Xamarin.Forms project in Visual Studio 2015 made with a clean install: What do I do? I thought there was built-in support. Regards.
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AutoComplete Xamarin Forms Cross Platform Sample
Attached is a snapshot of our app. For the "Area" section we have almost 3000 items. If we used a spinner or picker it would be very user unfriendly to let him scroll through the whole list till he...
View ArticleNavigationStack not showing the top page
We are busy developing some new functionality for an app (only on Windows Phone at this stage). In our app we have a TabbedPage set as the MainPage of the app, with multiple views as children. One of...
View ArticleWinPhone: Image.Source & images stored in LocalFolder
My app download some images from a web server and store they in the device local folder ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder.Path which, using the WinPhone emulator, is for instance...
View ArticleChange the text color for Xamarin.Forms.DatePicker
For Xamarin.Forms.DatePicker It is not obvious that the date field is "tapable" I want to change the text color of it to blue so the user will think it is clickable? I see a background color property...
View ArticleI am not getting the exact date which is shown in DatePicker date when I...
In native iOS I found some solution, but in Xamarin there could you please tell me the replication of it. How do I write the below code in Xamarin. NSDate* destinationDate = [[[NSDate alloc]...
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