Has anyone made a Picker with bindable items?
Has anyone extended the Picker control to expose a Bindable property ItemSource that when set, goes and adds the items to the Items property? Is it that simple or am I being naive? Has anyone managed...
View ArticleDisplaying Placeholder text on a DatePicker - Can't get this to work
I followed the renderer here: https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/35792/crash-in-custom-renderer-on-ios However, the text is never displayed and the datepicker always shows todays date when...
View ArticleNeed to add one content page into second page stack layout
Hi, I have put one content page ( Let's assume it as first page ) with some controls, and then i will put one more new content page with one stack layout. Here can we able to add the first content page...
View ArticleWhat a Java developer need to know to begin develop with Xamarin?
Hello everyone, I have Developed applications in Java/Android by the last 5 years, now I need migrate one Android App to Cross platform, the company selected Xamarin tool, because C# is most popular in...
View ArticleMR.Gestures handles ALL touch gestures
With MR.Gestures you can handle the Tapping, Tapped, DoupleTapped, LongPressing, LongPressed, Panning, Panned, Swiped, Pinching, Pinched, Rotating and Rotated gestures on all layouts, cells, views and...
View ArticleGeocoder.GetPositionsForAddressAsync returns some strange results
I have found that the Geocoder.GetPositionsForAddressAsyn accepts some bad input yet returns a valid result. For example, if I send it "a" as the address, it returns 48.3705449, 10.89779 which is the...
View ArticlePLEASE remove Starter edition!
Starter utterly worthless. You can't do anything with Starter. I tried "getting a taste" (per the website) of Xamarin.Forms and low and behold upon running the app, I get the "Your app is using native...
View ArticleCustom view load in Carousel Page
Repost into this Forum after comment from Cheesebaron. I have a custom view which is heavily based on the Karma meter created in the demo found here:...
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Xamarin Forms: [Release Mode] Could not load type System.Decimal[]
Hi everyone, I'm having some trouble trying to make a release **of an application (that is working perfectly on Debug Mode), when I receive the information from a **web service I got the following...
View ArticleA Note About Push Notifications
I aim to be the knight in shining armor with this post... For the last 5 days, I have worked 8 hours a day in order to solve why Xamarin was rejecting push notifications from external services such as...
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How do you dynamically make individual Grid rows size themselves to their...
I have a grid that fills itself up from data/calculations stored in a database. Because of this, the database may change and all rows need to be dynamic (no XAML setting individual RowDefinitions)....
View ArticleXamarin Forms UI not properly updated when binding source value changed
Hi I have an issue with binding in xamarin forms when i am using tableview with image cells. I set the binding with var result = new ImageCell() and then...
View ArticleCustom view load with live updates
I've created a custom view, which I've rendered for use in a xamarin.forms view. I'm able to update the view using the OnElementPropertyChanged method: protected override void...
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Making programmatically added Android view fill its parent
Background I have an Android view that is created with a custom renderer of a Xamarin.Forms page. Particularly, the page is a stack layout with this custom renderer and some buttons below that. This...
View ArticleListView ItemSource and SelectedItem
I have a xaml based app where a listview gets populated via ItemsSource and the SelectedItem is binded with an initial value. When the listview shows up the first time, the SelectedItem doesn't get...
View ArticleDevExpress Grid Component Crashes With No Error
I have been trying to setup the DevExpress Grid component, but the app just crashes with no errors. I think it may have to do with the section that says Next, manually add the...
View ArticleWindows Bridge
I'm curious what everyone thinks... Is it a Forms replacement in the future? Does Xamarin have some real competition now?...
View ArticleLoad a FileImageSource from an embedded resource
The XAML Button has an Image property which can be loaded with an image bundled with each OS version. This is not helpful for cross-platform development with hundreds of images. Can this image be...
View ArticleOpening solution in VS2015 results in project loading errors: Unknown Tools...
I receive an error for each project that's in my solution when I attempt to open my solution that was created in VS2015. For each project I receive the error: Unknown Tools Version '14.0' I am using...
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Can't download and open local PDF file on Android tablet device using Xamarin...
Hi, I am trying to write a test app in debug mode using the dependency service from Xamarin.forms to download a PDF file from the internet onto my app's special folder on my Lenovo Android tablet...
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