iOS MPMoviePlayerViewController goes blank after a few seconds
I'm having a weird issue with MPMoviePlayerViewController. public override void ViewDidLoad() { base.ViewDidLoad(); var f = new...
View ArticleBoolean Property and StreamImageSource result of converter not recieveing a...
Hey there, Me and the team decided to upgrade to Xamarin Forms 2.0 soon after it came out. We started seeing two problems that we have not been able to fix and no one else seems to have. Namely: 1) We...
View ArticleSetting shadow on detail page in MasterDetailPage
I am trying to recreate this UI. Screenshot I'm using a MasterDetailPage. In the existing app the background of the master page and the detail page are white. To separate them, the detail page has a...
View ArticleSearchbar = fullscreen in landscape on android, How do i prevent this?
I have a view that contains a listview with a searchbar in the listview header. When in landscape focusing the searchbar the search "field" desides to go fullscreen. Is there anyway a custom renderer...
View ArticleChart
I am learning xamarin and I want to add a chart to an application a developing. Is there anywhere I can work with chart without buying from telerik and other. I mean is there anyway I can design my own...
View ArticleToolbar above drawerlayout
I use the FormsAppCompatActivity and set the ToolbarResource to use the new SupportToolbar and that is working fine. But the navigation drawer slides in over the toolbar. That is following the Google...
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Launching a new content page from webpage URL
Hi, I am bringing an iOS app over to forms and for the most part, it's not been too difficult. Okay, a bit sluggish in some parts for Android and with some very odd results on WinPhone, but on the...
View ArticleUpload Picture Windows Phone
Hi, i'm trying to upload a picture to a windows phone 8.1 app xamarin forms. When I call it I open this which opens the interface to select a picture FileOpenPicker filePicker = new FileOpenPicker();...
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Hide action bar on initial screen on android
Hi All I'm facing an issue which several people have faced but no workaround posted by others worked for me. Have a look here! The issue is obvious, I have no content on the main screen except the...
View ArticleBest approach for Item Display/Edit pages
Hi, very often we are faced with the requirement to have a page that displays the details of an Item (e.g. a contact) where you have a ActionBar button that switches the page into edit mode. What is...
View ArticleXamarin Forms slow loading view.
Hi, Currently I am trying to retrieve 40 images via a local stored database. When I recieve the images I am putting a opacity overlay over it and store this in a absolute layout. But this appears to be...
View ArticleSwipe between list items detail view page
I have a list view on view XAML on SelectedItem i go to another view which is ContentPage for detail of the item selected now i want to swipe left for next item of list open in detail view , like gmail...
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 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 ArticleHow to simulate an event (touch or otherwise) to restart idle timer
I have an application that utilizes a sled on an iPod touch for scanning of barcodes. I can scan barcodes and the screen updates on success of the web service call but the device doesn't see these...
View ArticleBind MenuItem Text to viewmodel Binding
I have a Language dictionairy declared at viewmodel level. In my Xaml I have a listview with a datatemplate +viewcell. In this viewcell i have declared a menuitem and i now want to bind the text...
View ArticleFile Picker not working
Hello i'm using acr-xamarin-forms to allow user to select file in my app. I'm using following code var device = Resolver.Resolve (); var mediaPicker = DependencyService.Get (); if (mediaPicker == null)...
View ArticlePicker is too slow, why does Xamarin set SelectedIndex each time item added?...
So the picker is extremely slow. Ive attached a screen shot. So in one view of ours it took 22sto load. I removed the .Add of items to the pickers and our load when down to 3.6s per the profiler. Why...
View ArticleIf want a snappy UI don't use Labels. Or anything else...
I'm sorry for the harsh title. But this is exactly the sentence we throw around the office for quite some time now when ever somebody complains about the slowness of Apps based on Xamarin.Forms....
View ArticleXamarin.Forms Xaml Wrecks Visual Studios Intellisense 7 Months and Counting
The following thread was closed Visual Studio 2015 intellisense regression when editing XAML files, why? 1) Issue was resolved? No 2) To reduce the noice? This issue is so important that i don´t get...
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