How do I reference Custom Controls within a Xamarin Forms Shared Project?
I'm running into an issue when trying to reference my custom control within my XAML page. It seems that it needs the Assembly, but with the Shared Project template how do I do that since the assembly...
View ArticlePossible to embed the Focused view of a timepicker on a page?
For Android / iOS I'm wondering if it's possible to have the "Focused" view of a timepicker embedded into another view or straight onto a ContentPage. Basically so there's no dialog popup and the...
View ArticleCustom Controls, SetNativeControl and proper event handling
I am trying to use the Xlabs ImageGallery. In looking into the code it seems to have some issues with event handlers and I am just trying to get an understanding as to how it theoretically should be...
View ArticleImage buttons
I'm having issues with image-only buttons on iOS such that the images are distorted. It seems that the width of the button is "correct" but the image only takes up half of the available space and is...
View ArticleButton.Image - Sizing of button to size of image not working in IOS
Really simple problem. Android will properly set the size of the Button to the size of the Image. iOS does not. Is this a known issue? Setting the LayoutOptions of the Button doesn't change anything...
View ArticleGetting a grid of buttons without the spacing in between.
What do I need to do to avoid the default spacing between two buttons? I have tried setting padding to 0, BorderWidth etc. I am using Grid like this: in ctor: InitializeComponent(); var grid = new Grid...
View ArticleProgressBar height changed but now width is messed up
Hi everybody, I created a custom renderer to increase the height of my progress bar which works fine, the code is below, public class CustomProgressBariOs: ProgressBarRenderer { protected override void...
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Cross platform compositional Gestures - using Xamarin's own mechanism
Hi guys, please chomp on the juicy fruit of my last month's worth of toil....
View ArticleTrouble with Navigation Bar in MasterDetail Page
Hi I'm having trouble with the MasterDetail Navigation on the detail page. I would ultimately like to hide the navigation bar so that I can create a very custom look and feel I have tried adding...
View ArticleIssues on dynamic custom cell of ListView in Xamarin.Forms
I'm developing code snippet that uses 3 different custom cells in ListView. When I open the page that contains listview, everything is fine but after tapping button that changes the...
View ArticleNavigationItem titleview is null
Hi, I have a Xamarin Forms project with a page renderer. In this page renderer I want to show a UIPopoverViewcontroller with some content when I tap the title in the navigationBar but when I try to...
View ArticleNullPointerException on Android when checking if declared task is running
I am using Xamarin Forms and have updated everything. The code below works great on the iOS Simulator but crashes on the Android Simulator (at least for API 16). I originally just declared the task in...
View ArticleHaving issues with large memory being consumed when displaying images
Hi, I am currently working on a small project which requires some elements with images being displayed in a scrollview. I have a jpeg image of 43kb and when i try to display 5 instances of the my...
View ArticleHow to avoid cached page image being displayed on iOS when navigate back to a...
In particular scenarios, when the user hits the back button to navigate back to the previous page, I want to update that page before it is displayed. On Windows, WinPhone and Android this works fine,...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms for Mac
Why there is not a version of Xamarin.Forms for Mac? Are there any plans for that? Is there any open source project for Xamarin.Forms so we can fork it an and functinality
View ArticleXAML error messages at compile time
I'm debugging an XF app. I get an error in my Xaml at runtime. Is there any way to get the error at compile time, or am I just sol? Wally
View ArticleWhat is the minimum Android version supported by Xamarin.Forms?
I am sure it must be in the documentation somewhere, but I'm struggling to find it. What is the minimum Android version supported by Xamarin.Forms? Many thanks, John H.
View ArticleAndroid Emulator Not Completing launch
I have an XF app that was originally written for iOS/PCL and works beautifully on that platform. Now I've added an Android app to the solution, added all my components and hooked it all up to the PCL....
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How 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 ArticleExample of binding with a path more than one level deep?
Can someone provide an example of how to define a binding in code for a path that is more than one level deep? For example consider this //directly setting works Title = model.Person.FirstName...
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