MasterDetailPage on WP8.1, disabling appbar and menu placement
I'm using MasterDetailPage, but I need to change two things. First I wanna see the app bar with menu button only on HomePage, right know every subpage has the app bar, which I don't wanna see. On...
View ArticleListView with bound source doesnt work in more complex xaml
Hi, I encourage weird problem today. I have simple listview with 2 properties bound. It works like a charm when my Xaml looks like this: <StackLayout> <ListView x:Name="mylist"...
View ArticleCan't establish Socket connection
Hi, I am using @RyanDavis 's sockets-to-pcl plugin in a xamarin.form project. I am following the tcpSocketClient sample code posted in the GitHub repository https://github.com/rdavisau/sockets-for-pcl...
View ArticleHow 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 ArticleSuddenly getting error in init of instance of UIKit.UIImage?
I haven't upgraded the recent upgrades to XS, X.Android and X.iOS. All of a sudden I am getting the following error: System Exception has been thrown Could not initialize an instance of the type...
View ArticleTableView rendering on Android (Settings app like)
I am using the TableView for the Menu page, on iOS the rendering is acceptable (attachments: iOS - Settings app and iOS - menu page). On Android however, the rendering of the TableView does not yet...
View ArticleXamarin Chat
I am a part of some really great StackOverflow chat rooms, but unfortunately the Xamarin room is always empty. I would love to see some active devs start to idle in there. It could be a great resource...
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...
View ArticleEntry control wrapping text
Is this possible? I have a long string of text I'd like to edit with a multi-line entry, but the text just goes offscreen and I can't find any wrapping options.
View ArticleCombining ScrollView with RelativeLayout and Childs
Hi guys, I'm rather new to Xamarin and ran in to a problem. I've created 80% of the view code through my .xaml.cs file and 20% through my .xaml file. Code in xaml.cs file: ` /// /// The _calendar view...
View ArticleCouldn't copy SQLite DB to iOS folder
Hello everyone. I'm trying to execute data from some sqlite DB, but i can't since it doesn't copying to app's local folder. Looks like program creates new one, empty, so i get an error that "no such...
View ArticleStrange behaviour with ListView and separator thickness on iOS 8
Hi, I've encountered a strange bug with the ListView, please see attached screenshot. Some of the separators is thicker than the others, and when I scroll it flickers a lot and changes thickness...
View ArticleAndroid crashes with ActivityIndicator while starting
Hi, on our project (and a blank test project for reproduction) the ActivityIndicator let Android Apps crash when they use minimum API Level 16 (4.1 Jelly Beans). It's enough to put a ActivityIndicator...
View ArticleAndroid crashes with ActivityIndicator while starting
Hi, on our project (and a blank test project for reproduction) the ActivityIndicator let Android Apps crash when they use minimum API Level 16 (4.1 Jelly Beans). It's enough to put a ActivityIndicator...
View ArticleDLToolkit PageFactory - simple MVVM for Xamarin.Forms (github)
DLToolkit.PageFactory for Xamarin.Forms The main reason for creation of PageFactory was that I needed very simple to use library which would free me from implementing the same things for any...
View ArticleWindows Phone pull to refresh not working when ListView has few items
We're using Xamarin Forms 1.4.2.6359. We have a page with a ListView that has pull to refresh enabled. For Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1, when the ListView doesn't have enough items to fit the screen...
View ArticleUsing ObservableCollection as a search mechanism for BLE enumeration
I am using Xamarin in C#, to build a cross platform BLE app. It is based on this example app using the Monkey.Robotics plugin. All the examples use an ObservableCollection<IDevice> devices; line,...
View ArticlePhoto Grayscale Filter With XLabs Photo
I'm trying to improve the OCR Xamarin.Tesseract. The best way to improve it is by processing the image before it's processed by the OCR, putting it at a grayscale filter and adjusting the contrast,...
View ArticleXamarin Forms - Back button spamming
Hi all, I'm pretty new with XF and now I am having an app with a navigation stack with many pages. The problem I have is that if I spam the Back button/arrow fast, the stack is not getting popped...
View ArticleVery High Memory Usage with Simple App
As I began UI Testing my Xamarin.Forms application I noticed Peak memory usage of > 220MB. This seems high to me. So I created a blank Xamarin.Forms app from the template. i.e. the app that says...
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