Request: Support Visual Designer for XAML
Greetings, I am a huge fan of Xamarin and especially of the ability to leverage Xamarin Forms to create a "shared" UI for all of my common elements. That said, I find it both frustrating and...
View ArticleRequest: Support for ICommand on most if not all controls
Greetings, I had a request for the "powers that be" That request is to consider adding support for ICommand to most if not all control events (ItemSelected, ItemTapped, etc). This would allow a great...
View ArticleXamarin Forms Map, MoveToRegion in custom event handler not working
Hello everyone, Can anyone please tell why Map.MoveToRegion(.FromCenterAndRadius(somePosition,.FromKilometers(0.5))); works in implemented events, but in a custom control the custom event is fired and...
View ArticleCan a double-tap gesture be used on an Entry control so as to do something...
I have an Entry control on a form that I can type a date into which is validated by a behavior and that works fine. I also have an invisible (to save screen real estate) DatePicker on the form that I...
View ArticleTapGestureRecognizer only recognizing double taps on Galaxy S6
This code works correctly on the nexus 4 xamarin simulator but when debugging on my Galaxy S6 Edge command methods are only executed with double taps. I have tried it with and without defining the...
View ArticleHow to change nav text programmatically in iOS?
How Can I change the text of Nav Bar programmatically in iOS? I can't use this.Title. I could change some attributes using: UINavigationBar.Appearance.SetTitleTextAttributes(new UITextAttributes() {...
View ArticleSystem.MissingMethodException: Method 'ScrollView.ScrollToAsync' not found.
Every time I try to call ScrollView.ScrollToAsync() I get this run time exception: System.MissingMethodException: Method 'ScrollView.ScrollToAsync' not found. I'm not sure how my code compiles if the...
View ArticleGridView with ItemsSource?
Are there any plans to implement the Grid with an ItemSource property?
View ArticleListView in ScrollView not scrolled
I have a RelativeLayout in ScrollView which contains ListView. When I want to scroll ListView scrolled RelativeLayout. But if I hold down ListView one finger, and scroll the other finger, it scrolled.
View ArticleCross Platform version of "SharedApplication" and/or "Shared Intent"?
I am looking to see if there is anyone out there that has a suggestion on implementing the SharedApplication and "Shared Intent" in a more pure Xamarin Forms manner (right once in the PCL shared code...
View ArticleHow to use Badge.Plugin in Xamarin.forms? Is there any alternate to...
Hello, I am using the Nuget plugin Badge.Plugin. I need to create and set the badge value in Xamarin.forms.Can we use the Badge.Plugin in forms.If so, how? Or is there any solution to create and set...
View ArticleForms uses badge to share project errors
http://www.nuget.org/packages/Xam.Plugin.Badge/ Is there a successful operation of the project? I'd like to find some common packages. But badge seems to be the only one.
View ArticleHow to manage Classes (serialization / saving / query them)
Hi. I'm new to Xamarin and wanted to ask what would be the best way to manage classes. I had good experience with linq2sql with c#. Is this also possible for Xamarin.Forms with X-Platform? I want to...
View ArticleSetting button background color removes material design touch feedback
How do i set the background of a button but still keep the touch feedback from android material design? <Button x:Name="login" Text="LOGIN" TextColor="White" BackgroundColor="Teal"...
View Articleapp size is too large
I have made simple app with 2 classes app.cs and CarouselView.cs. used this code Only thing app is doing a slideshow with predefined images. there are 7 images, total size 800kb but when I created .apk...
View ArticleAdding a picker in XAML
I'd like to add a picker control that has the values 1,2,3,4,5. I tried the following... <Picker SelectedIndex="{Binding NewCriterion.Importance}" > <Items>...
View Articlelistview edit item and new item inside pop up
I bound my listview using mvvm logic but I need edit item and add new item actions. What is the best way to do it without navigating to another page? On WPF i have achieved this using a popup with a...
View ArticleDependencyProperty equivalent for Xamarin Forms.
I'm writing a XAML + MVVM project for testing porpuses. So far i haven't had any problems trying to port my Windows code to Xamarin except for the DependencyProperty. Is there a way to get it working...
View ArticleOnStart, OnSleep, and OnResume not called
Hello, I created a Xamarin.Forms Shared application and noticed that OnStart, OnSleep, and OnResume are never reached. OnStart should be called in Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init am I right ? Why are all of...
View ArticleDouble-tapping in Xamarin.Forms on Android
We've found some rather annoying issues with multiple taps and navigation on Android using Xamarin.Forms. Let's say there's a button press and in the handler there's a bog-standard await...
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