Forms 1.5 with Xamarin Visual Studio latest (as of Sept24, 2015)
I am using Visual Studio 2015, and have updated my mac to the latest Xamarin release as well. I create a new project, "Blank App (Xamarin.Forms Shared)" After project creation, I open "Manage NuGet...
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I want to discrease the distance between text and border。How? And I found that the smallest size of button is 80*40?Right? When I set HeightRequest = "20" ,the text of Button display incomplete.
View ArticleXamarin.Forms UWP support & Windows 10 Mobile
Should we expect Xamarin.Forms UWP support on the day Windows 10 Mobile becomes generally available? From what I see on https://resources.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-private-preview.html, it's a "very...
View ArticleFacebook - Sharing something
Hello, I have an issue with my app. I want to share something on facebook but I don't know how to do it with xamarin.auth. I think I have to use this sample, but I don't know how to change it to do...
View ArticleHow to know which item in a ListView is being clicked and then perform an...
I have a ViewCell that's bound to a model, which is generated in a ContentPage. In the ContentPage I have something like this: List<Item> myList = new List<Item>(); ListView myListView =...
View ArticleBest control to use in PCL project?
I was reading over the Xamarin.Forms User Interface to try to find a GridView that I could use, but it doesn't look like one is there. So, I figured I'd ask everyone the easiest option I could go with....
View ArticleProperty change does not seem to update datatemplate and view
Hi all, I am starting out with the wonderful Xamarin Forms and up till now it was pretty smooth sailing. That is always good. Now I have a problem with my datatemplate in listview not updating a Label...
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Hi Friends. The Entry control has a Completed event that is raised when the return key is pressed. What is "Return key" chr13? chr10? It depends by OS? I would like to add programmatically this code......
View ArticleLoads of warinngs after upgrading to xf 1.5
I get the following warnings after upgrading to 1.5 and google play services v25 1>JAVAC : warning : java\lang\Object.class(java\lang:Object.class): major version 51 is newer than 50, the highest...
View ArticleJust upgraded to Xamarin Studio 5.9.7 (build 9)
I just upgraded to Xamarin Studio 5.9.7 (build 9) and rebuilt my xamarin forms iOS app and it's size grew from 17MB to 41MB. Has anyone else observed similar behavior? The app store version grew from...
View ArticleWhat .NET version is used in a Xamarin Forms Shared Solution
This may be a silly questions, but I'm somewhat confused here.. When working on a PCL project you can select the .NET target version, right. When you create a XF Shared project there does not seem to...
View ArticleWebview and W3C Javascript Geolocation API
Showing a webpage with geolocation javascript code in forms webview and its not working, Any idea?
View ArticleImageCell won't display picture.
Hi, I have a page with a listview on it, after clicking a button a user can select a picture and I want to display this picture in an ImageCell but it won't show it. Using PCL storage I copy the file...
View Article[Xamarin Blog] Using Custom UIViewControllers in Xamarin.Forms on iOS
Just posted: Using Custom UIViewControllers in Xamarin.Forms on iOS on the Xamarin Blog. Read the full article to learn how to work directly with native iOS UI code from Xamarin.Forms. Use this thread...
View ArticleWhich layout to use for control?
Hi I am wanting to create an app that has some "style" (read: not using standard UI controls) and am wondering what the best way and most performant method for creating repeatable and custom views. The...
View ArticleVisual Studio works too slow while editing XAML
It was working fine but when I started typing this example, it got really slow. I press a key and it appears on the screen after a couple of seconds. Here is a video. Why does this happen?
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How to programatically exit your program and not have it as a background...
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/18156/how-to-close-my-app? Very confused by the Dependency Service example at the present time. Isn't there a simple code recipe example to KillProcess to kill the...
View ArticleiOS WebView doesn't resize Width on device rotation.
When I drop a WebView into a view, I'm having an issue whereby when I rotate the device, the WebView stays the same width as it was initially. note: I always start out vertical, so rotating horizontal...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms error message on Build - Project file could not be imported
The Xamarin.Forms project was built in Visual Studio 2013. I am now trying to run the IOs app in Xamarin Studio. The Project file that can't be imported is associated to the PCL Project. I've tried...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms: Settings the ActionBar Background image
Hi, I'm working with Xamarin.Forms and constructing a Master/Detail page programmatically. I'd like to find out how I can set the ActionBar background image for Android and iOS. Any hints greatly...
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