How to use INotifyPropertyChanged with a ListView
I have a ListView whose ItemSource is an ObservableCollection of Message objects. Message objects implement INotifyPropertyChanged. I am changing properties on a message object in the...
View ArticleHow can I get the MasterDetailPage to behave itself in split view on iPad?
I've got an app that's using the Xamarin Forms MasterDetailPage to layout a slide-over burger menu on phones and a popover on tablets. But when I open the app in split view on an iPad, it falls down....
View ArticleHasShadow Property of Frame not working
I am using Xamarin Forms and I am trying to build a cardview style control by putting a frame inside a listview and it doesn't look like the HasShadow property is working properly. I have it set to...
View ArticleXLabs and Xamarin.Forms v2
Hi, after installing XLabs.Forms into a Xamarin.Forms v2 Solution, the WinPhone-Project says "Cannot resolve dependency to assembly 'Xamarin.Forms.Platform.WP8, Version=1.5.0.0, Culture=neutral,...
View ArticleStop making properties internal!
It's getting really annoying. Many of the controls are under-developed on Windows Phone (e.g. MasterDetailPage - seriously, a command bar icon???), and our team decided to work around that. Except they...
View ArticleXF Android : Could not load assembly Microsoft.Windows.Design.Extensibility
Hello , I have update Xamarin.Forms to 2.0.0.6490, But get this exception when compile: Exception while loading assemblies: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load assembly...
View ArticleUWP - Immediate crash in release mode
I have a forms solution, it runs fine in debug but crashes immediately in release mode, it doesn’t even get to my MainPage constructor: Unhandled exception at 0x54D62408 (Windows.UI.Xaml.dll) in...
View ArticleiOS Inline Picker with Xamarin.Forms
Anybody have any guidance on how to go about having an iOS inline style picker in my Xamarin.Forms iOS app? The Android side is fine as is I'm just being asked to make the iOS look more iOS. Not having...
View ArticleDo MessagingCenter subscriptions get processed on not visibale pages
I have a page that includes a control, this control has a view model that subscribes to a message Like this MessagingCenter.Subscribe<object, string[]>(dummy, "UPDATE_LAST_SYNCED", (sender,...
View ArticleFacebook component - Share Link doesn't show url and image url on device but...
Hi, I noticed lately that the following wasn't working anymore. It does on simulator but on device there is an activity indicator running within the Facebook frame as if it could not load the web page...
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CachedImage FFImageLoading for Xamarin.Forms
https://github.com/molinch/FFImageLoading or https://github.com/daniel-luberda/FFImageLoading/ (new Forms features) DEMO:...
View ArticleRender a ContentPage inside an AlertDialog or DialogFragment
Hi Xamarin Devs, Is it possible to display a ContentPage inside a DialogFragment or AlertDialog? My problem is that when I try to get the renderer of a ContentPage, it throws an error. Here's how i'm...
View ArticleHas anybody had Norton anti-virus remove Mono.Cecil.Mdb.dll and...
Norton anti-virus has just kicked in and removed Mono.Cecil.Mdb.dll and Mono.Cecil.Rocks.dll from the xamarin.forms.2.0.0.6490 package of a project that somebody sent me as part of a delivery of a work...
View ArticleViewmodels not disposing on navigation.pop?
Hello Ive ran into a problem where if i setup a page with a viewmodel using Xlabs ViewFactory... its not disposing on popasync? The problem it causes for me is that the viewmodel subscribes to the...
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 ArticleAccessing the CommandBar in WP8.1
Hi, I want to change the background color of the CommandBar in WP8.1, but I don't know how to access it. I tried a custom Page and NavigationPage renderer, but I didn't find it. Is there a way to...
View ArticleIntranet website not opening webview windows phone 8.1
Hi, In my windows phone app, I am trying to load a link http://172.29.xxx.xx/web/ (which supposed to be Intranet site) in a WebView . In my application's Package.appxmanifest file Private Networks...
View ArticleMissing Image... "SkImageDecoder::Factory returned null"
previously working for a year or so. Builds in the last couple weeks now are intermittently failing to show my avatar and this is dumped to the log. SkImageDecoder::Factory returned null As far as i...
View ArticleSqlite transaction timeout failure in Xamarin.Forms app running on iOS device
I have a Xamarin.Forms app being built for iOS and Android that uses sqlite for data storage. In the iOS version, we call directly into the sqlite APIs instead of using something like...
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