iOS: EntryCell showing incorrect keyboard after scrolling down to another...
Hi guys, Easy one to replicate, I have a page that contains numerous cells, 2 text entry cells at the top, a few switches, some custom controls, and further down the page another entry cell with...
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I have an app where i'm trying to display images in a list view. It's one image per row but i want the image to goacross the whole width of the screen so I need it to get larger / smaller depending on...
View ArticleCustom renderer for Picker
Hi, I'm really new to Xamarin and Xamarin Forms as well, so maybe it's a stupid question: I'm trying to implement my own renderer for Xamarin.Forms.Picker, I'm starting from Custom renderers example. I...
View ArticleBindableProperty of ImageSource type raises PropertyChanged twice in custom...
In custom views, when using ImageSource bindable properties, the PropertyChanged is raised twice! It can lead to major performance issues in custom controls using images. Output: !!! HomeViewModel...
View ArticleDefine the "click area" of ActionBar in MasterDetailPage
I've implemented MasterDetailPage in a project and ran into an issue quickly. As shown in the screenshot below, the master page hides and shows itself when I touched within the red border area, instead...
View ArticleHow to get Azure Mobile Services SQLiteStore working on Windows Phone using...
My app is happily using both "Azure Mobile Services SQLiteStore" and "Windows Azure Mobile Services" in the Android and iOS builds. However, I have wasted rather a lot of hours trying to get the same...
View ArticleMy BindableProperty on custom control is called twice every time in my...
Hi folks, I have a BindableProperty in a custom control like so: public static readonly BindableProperty ShowIndeterminateProperty = BindableProperty.Create<CoreProgress, bool>( p =>...
View ArticleHow to use tabbed page to switch among child pages
I have a Forms application with three pages. I'd like to use a tabbed page to switch among the three so that you can access them in any order. The samples seem to show swapping different data into the...
View Articledatetime format
Hi. I would like to know if there is the possibility to format a DateTime value using the Android (and iOS...) format selected by the user in "Date & Time" settings, under Chosen Date Format. Thanks
View ArticleI want to refresh my ListView on Button Click. Please help. :)
Error: 'xamarin.forms.ListView' does not contain definition for 'IsRefreshing' 'xamarin.forms.ListView' does not contain definition for 'IsPullToRefreshEnabled'
View ArticleHow to create ListView Long click in android xamarin
Hi, I have working on Long click on ListView Cell. In IOS i have create Renderer and inherit from ViewCellRenderer and create long click functionality using below code. public override UITableViewCell...
View ArticleBehavior issue
Good aftnernoon ladies and gents. My situation is as followed: - Portable project with a Custom Behavior in it. - Regular Xamarin project which has a reference to the Portable project in the Shared...
View ArticleHow to remove the BackgroundImage of a Page ?
Hi, I want to conditionally set the Background Image of the page... I am facing a problem where, once i set the background image to a page, i cannot remove it.. i can only change it.. please advice how...
View ArticleXamarin Forms 1.3 Behavior Binding Bug
I have been playing with the new Bahavior class in 1.3 and discovered a bug when using Binding on a BindableProperty. I created the following behavior to allow an ItemsSource and an ItemTemplate to be...
View ArticleHow to add checkbox control in XAML
Hi, I want to add Checkbox control in Xaml page. I added below code in .Xaml page. <CheckBox Margin="10, 10, 3, 3" Name="acceptPolicy" Content = "Accept our policy" FontSize="12"...
View ArticleGoogle Place Autocomplete in Xamarin.Forms
Has anyone integrated Google Place Autocomplete using Xamarin.Forms? I am to use it on a map for location suggestions. I've only seen resources for Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS but on the part of...
View ArticleXamarin 4.0 compatibility issues.
Hi, I realized that there are some compatibility issues with Xamarin Forms. One of this issue is related to XAlign property. Once I have updated to Xamarin 4.0, found that on two of my testing phone...
View ArticlePassword entries for windows phone looking different than normal entries.
The entries which have isPassword=true are looking different. The border for these entries is bold than normal entries. How do I get the same border for both type of entries?
View ArticleCachedImage FFImageLoading for Xamarin.Forms
https://github.com/molinch/FFImageLoading or https://github.com/daniel-luberda/FFImageLoading/ (new Forms features) DEMO:...
View ArticleHow to make a translated button clickable?
I'm trying to make a drop-down menu. The way I tried to do this was adding buttons in an AbsoluteLayout and giving them TranslateY in a for loop. The problem is, the buttons are not clickable, and are...
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