Understanding Grid Layout
I am a bit confused about the Add method of Grid with four args: grid.Children.Add(new Label { Text = "Span two rows (or more if you want)", TextColor = Color.Yellow, BackgroundColor = Color.Navy,...
View ArticleIntellisense for Xamarin classes....
I am running VS 2015 Enterprise and have Resharper Ultimate installed however I get no love for intellisense for any of the Xamarin forms classes. Did I miss a setup step. I followed the Petzold book...
View ArticleShare Intent on Both Iphone and Android
I would like to be able to allow my users to click on a button and have it open up the normal intent windows for Android and IPhone that simply accepts text, and allows it to be shared to messenger,...
View ArticleWhere to handle startup asynchronous tasks?
Hi, I am curious where the best place would be to handle startup tasks that I want to run before MainPage loads. Initially I thought I would place this into OnStart. If you look below, in OnStart I...
View ArticleUsing App Compat/App Compat theme breaks Navigation.RemovePage on Android
Issue: I am using App Compat and the Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar theme in my Xamarin.Forms Android project. I have a button that I want to go back to a certain page, so I am using Navigation.RemovePage...
View ArticlePushModalAsync followed by PushAsync crashes.
Hello everybody, First of all, I just want to let you know that I am an IT student that just started to use xamarin and I already love it. However, while i was following this tutorial...
View ArticleXamlC on assembly level throws unhandled exception for a simple Xaml page
Environment: Xamarin.Forms version: 2.0.0.6490 Visual Studio Community 2015 (w/ Update 1) on Win10 (32-bit) Android Phone Version: 4.2,1 PCL project Description: The Xaml page (attached as text file)...
View ArticleAdding Android Theme Causes Crash
Hi All, When I add a Theme to the Android build of my project, it crashes. When I change my Activity from this: [Activity (Label = "AppName", MainLauncher = true)] to this: [Activity (Label =...
View ArticleException on developer console, "You MUST call Xamarin.Insights.Initialize();...
Hi all, I have built and published my app in google playstore. Recently one of our user who uses Samsung Galaxy 3 reported that App is crashing frequently. Since Xamarin Insights is under renovation I...
View ArticleXam.Plugin.Geolocator
Is the above plugin works fine? I am not able to get the location co-ordinates by using it, I just need the value of co-ordinates instead of displaying in UI and pass the value when ever there is a...
View ArticleGEO Location in Android using MVVM
Hi All, I am trying to make a MVVM app, in which I will have a button which speaks to the interface to contact the device plugin and get the Current Location of the android device, I am just going to...
View ArticleHow to get sharp images?
I am working on the Xamarin Forms platform, building layouts in XAML. However, when I size an image to fit the screen, I always have a problem with the image becoming pixelated. It seems that I am not...
View ArticleHow to hide progress indicator only after view is updated?
Hi, in my application some operations are time consuming and require a progress indicator. I use Acr.UserDialogs.ShowLoading/HideLoading for this. The problem is, often the progress indicator is hidden...
View ArticleXamarin.Mobile.dll
Hi is anyone able to fetch GeoLocations using Xamarin.Mobile.dll? can you post a sample code here? I mean I don't want the co-ordinates from the Activity Class.. I Just need a plugin Class which Can...
View ArticleCan I use Use UIViewController and ContentPage in one app?
In my app, Some View are coded with UIViewController, and some are inherited from ContentPage(in pcl, with xamarin.forms). Can I navigate between these two? Thanks
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How to use SVG Images as Controls and Form "Background" (or customisation)?
I tried several Nuget packages and followed their description of implementation. But since I'm very new to Xamarin and C# I can't get it to work Could someone please precisely describe how to implement...
View ArticleVisual Studio reporting errors (Value cannot be null) since last set of...
Since applying the latest Xamarin updates, Visual Studio is reporting the following error: ERROR: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: project Unfortunately, with so much software auto-updating these...
View ArticleUnable to find a version of XF compatible with...
I have 5 packages (Xamarin.Android.Support....) that can be updated, but I have this error (for all packages...) Attempting to resolve dependency 'Xamarin.Android.Support.v7.AppCompat (= 23.1.1.0)'....
View ArticleAsync adding points on Xamarin.Forms.Maps
Hi, everybody. I have a prolema, can't asynchronously add a point on the map help please public MapPage () { map = new Map { IsShowingUser = true, HeightRequest = 100, WidthRequest = 960,...
View ArticleXamarin User Controls
Hello. For my project I need to animate an image by rotating. I thought that since quesa ruora image that must be repeated in various parts of my application would be useful enough to pack in a custom...
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