Notification issue on iOS not responding when app is on "sleep"
Hi Guys, We have developed an application (a knowledge challenge game) which utilises notifications. Works great in Android, and in iOS works when its in "resume" status. however when the app goes into...
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Guys, I want set image to dark tinted image. I know it could be done through Image rendering for iOS and Android. But i am unable to do so. kindly guide me ... I am not well know to rendering. A sample...
View ArticleHow to display "Back button" on NavigationPage even when I am on the first page
Hi, I have a NavigationPage (lets call it SubNavigator), which I push onto another NavigationPage (lets call it MainNavigator) using PushModalAsync. That works. I can push into SubNavigator and...
View ArticleHow to load HTML page with javascript cdn links and code using...
How to load HTML page with javascript cdn links and code using HtmlWebViewSource in WebView Xamarin forms this is my code ex: var htmlSource = new HtmlWebViewSource(); htmlSource.Html =...
View ArticleSwitching from native iOS to Xamarim Forms and taking Core Data with
Hello, I have a native iOS app (developed in X-Code with Objective-C), which uses a CoreData database. The app has not been updated for quite a long time and I plan to redo it completely. I would like...
View ArticleDisplay pop-up message
Hi everyone, I am having trouble displaying a pop-up message to the screen. The main reason why is because I don't want to use DisplayAlert from Page class, but would like to be able to display a...
View ArticleExpandableListView - Collpase all.
Has one used https://github.com/away168/ExpandableListView sample to implemented an expandable list view and collapses the other expanded list view when a new one is selected. Any pointers would be...
View ArticleWhich SQLite.NET package to use?
Looking at Nuget I see there are two packages that seemed to be used a lot and I have no clue what are the differences between the two. sqlite-net-pcl SQLite.Net-PCL Anyone have any recommendations or...
View ArticleHow to change toolbar colors?
Hi, first time asking a question here. I've spent hours losing my mind trying to add a toolbar to my app and style it to my liking. I finally got it to show up, but cannot figure out how to simply...
View ArticleBorderRadius / Corner Radius with AppCompat using Forms on a Button
Anyone have notice that if you set your app to use FormAppCompartActivity, BorderRadius on Xamarin Forms seems to stop working? I've tried using BorderRadius with higher values (Example: 50) and...
View ArticleColored border for button in Android with AppCompat?
Hi, After updating my Activity to derive from FormsAppCompatActivity, the button borders are no longer visible. Before AppCompat I was able to add a colored border like this: <Style...
View ArticleHow to display an image as rounded image using Xamarin.Forms (Android)
Presently image is showing as normal image. I need to display an image as rounded image. Attaching a file of needed image type.
View ArticleXamarin Forms and Estimote SDK?
Hi, I'm planning to develop a simple/basic iOs and android app using the estimote iBeacon android and iOs SDKs: https://components.xamarin.com/view/estimotesdk...
View ArticleCalling a "platform" method on CustomRenderer in Android project with PCL?
Hi all, I have a Xamarin.Forms project which uses PCL, and while everything has been great so far with my CustomRenderer that I've created for my Android project, I am unable to figure out how to...
View ArticleHow do you build Xamarin.Forms iOS projects without Xcode 8.0 beta?
Link to the build error Xamarin was working fine for me one week ago, now I can't get it to build anything on OS X. When I build a new project, it throws this error:...
View ArticleDisplaying pop-up message to the screen, but from within ViewModel?
Hi everyone, I am having trouble displaying the pop-up message to the screen. The main reason why is because I don't want to display a message from Page class, but from view model. So, what I am doing...
View ArticleHow to check if the instance of a Form is null or not.
Hi, I am navigating back and forth between multiple forms in my application. and the code to navigate to the next page is like this. Navigating from the HomePage to the SummaryPage works with this code...
View ArticleAdd 'Done' button to keyboard on iOS
How does one add a 'Done' button to a keyboard when editing an Entry on Xamarin.Forms? (iOS only) I'm not sure how to write a renderer for this and wire that to a Keyboard on Xamarin.Forms.
View ArticleClick Event not triggered after back button click
Hi, have a Xamarin.Forms application with a Page that contains a Map. In the page constructor I am adding Pins like that: foreach (var pg in playgrounds) { var pgPos = new...
View ArticleUsing RabbitMQ / AMQP with Xamarin.Forms
Hello, in one of our projects we want to exchange messages between mobile devices and servers using RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ provides a .net client library, but there is no PCL or compatible nuget packages...
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