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XAML Button sitting in middle of grid cell, despite using END definition?
I am building a Xamarin app with two icons in which I have used the following code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"...
View ArticleToolbar item image showing as blue square in iOS - works in Android
I have been developing a Xamarin forms project and can't get my ToolbarItem to show my log out image. The image shows up fine in Android but in iOS it just comes up as a blue square. This may be a...
View ArticleIcon image on Toolbar item in xamarin Forms
Hi, I'm creating all forms UI with the code using the Shared project. I want to add the icon image to the toolbar item. Can anyone guide me how can I achieve the same ? I could not find a suitable...
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How do I get this Intent screen to go away after pushing my Forms page?
Hello everyone. I am experiencing a problem with an Android Intent. My app can open an email attachment/files with an .afsp extension. When I open this in iOS, it reads the content of the file, sends...
View ArticleToolbarItem icon in iOS
I have a strange behaviour working with toolbar icons on iOS. Here is the code: ToolbarItems.Add(new ToolbarItem("Info", "info-icon.png", () => { Navigation.PushAsync(new AboutPage()); })); In iOS...
View ArticleUpgrading Xamarin.Forms.Labs to XLabs.Forms
There has been a major refactoring on how the XLabs project is structured so your existing project based on the 1.2.x will break. The reason for the refactoring was simple; separate functionality that...
View ArticleHow to do global exception handling in Xamarin.Forms
I haven't found any solution on this. Any Pointers will be helpful or any alternative approach to do implement this will be helpful.
View Articleasp.net authentication/authorization retention
Is there a standard method that Xamarin customers retain authentication/authorization information when working with WCF services? Similar to a browser storing and using the ASP.NET_SessionId cookie?
View ArticleHow to set the desired Launch Screen in XF.iOS project?
I have designed my own launch screen images and copied them to Resources folder replacing the existing ones. I replace all the six of them. But I am still getting the Xamarin's logo on start up. I...
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Adding Pull To Refresh to ListView for iOS :)
I love pull to refresh and I wanted to add it to iOS. Mark's video is awesome showing you how to use custom renderers, so I applied his practices to iOS:...
View ArticleWhy does iPad 9 picker display a "paste" button, and what can we do about it?
Our app uses a picker for selecting from an option of numbers. For some reason iPad iOS 9 introduces a "paste" option for the picker. Questions: Why does this happen? I thought the whole point of a...
View Article[Android] "The 'LinkAssemblies' task failed unexpectedly"
I'm getting this error in my Forms app. My app targets Android 14. I did not create it from the Xamarin.Forms project template, but rather re-purposed the original app while trying to upgrade to...
View ArticleImage control and memory...
I am debugging some out of memory issues and have some pointed questions: Have there been any improvements made to the Image control in recent releases since 1.2? Particularly concerning Android. When...
View ArticleBug with the Picker control on Xamarin Forms?
I am working right now with Xamarin Forms and testing with Android. It seems that the Picker Control has problems, I don't know if I did something wrong, when you are going to pick an item, the style...
View ArticleToo big size for blank app.
Hello! Today I decided try to find answer on question: "Why my simple app with 10k lines of source code and two low weight dependency, take around 50 mb in AppStore?". But let's look how many take...
View ArticleLag scrolling TableView Xamarin.Forms
I have a little problem... In xamarin.forms I created a TableView and I added different custom cells. The problem is that I have lag when scrolling the table and some cells disappear. In iOS I was able...
View ArticleChange the keyboard type for SearchBar
We have a page that uses SearchBar, but in one instance, it would be more beneficial for us to be able to use Keyboard.Numeric since we're searching for values that largely contain numbers. Is...
View ArticleHow to use XLabs Calendar Control
Hello, I'm trying to use the Calendar Control from XLabs to list the events on the device calendar in a list and to add events to it's calendar, but i don't have a clue about how to use it, the...
View ArticleHow to create a ContentView-Renderer for Android?
Hi, I tried creating a custom renderer for a ContentView. I tried by inheriting from ViewRenderer but it keeps crashing. The error message is : SetElement did not create the correct number of children...
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How to resize an image in Xamarin.Forms (iOS, Android and WP)?
Hi all In my app, there is a registration-page, where the user can register to have access to more functions. Among other he can load an image, that then is showed as his avatar. To select an image, I...
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