FastCell on github - silky smooth scrolling in ListView while using XAML
The xaml in the complex example is really over-the-top (3 stack layouts, and 9 images) and performance is still good. Let me know how you get on! Implementation is very easy and unobtrusive....
View ArticleTabbed Pages in android are not working with new Xamarin Forms 1.4.4.6392
I hava a Tabbed page Inside a Navigation Page As Detail Of Master Details Page, Clicking on tabs doesn't work, it always shows the last page. public class TestTabMasterDetailPage : MasterDetailPage {...
View Article[Xamarin Blog] Build Your Own Selfies App with Xamarin.Forms and Azure
Sending selfies to all your friends has never been easier thanks to Moments: a Snapchat clone built with Xamarin.Forms and Microsoft Azure. Best of all, Moments is also open-source and freely available...
View Articlepage navigation
Dear All, I am new born level of Xamarin, I am trying to navigate from Mainform to MyPage1 ..but confuse how does it work? what method should I use to call MyPage1? with Fade or sliding transition?...
View ArticleCould not install package 'Xamarin.Forms 1.3.3.6323'.
Dear All, newbie with Xamarin, When adding 'Xamarin.Forms' package, I am facing with below: Could not install package 'Xamarin.Forms 1.3.3.6323'. You are trying to install this package into a project...
View ArticleCan't deploy to iPhone
Cross-posting this from the Visual Studio forum, since it hasn't gotten a response in 24 hours. Hopefully I can get some attention here. Whenever I try to run on an iPhone, Visual Studio hangs for a...
View ArticleSwitch to Landscape Full Screen View
I searched the forums but Didn't find anything like this. I'm using Charts in my app, so I want users to be able to switch from portait to full screen landscape for chart detailed analisis. I found a...
View ArticleUsing Roboto Condensed on iOS through Xamarin Forms
I'm trying to use two different Roboto Condensed fonts (excuse the lay man terms) in a Xamarin Forms app. The fonts are two different ttf-files * RobotoCondensed-Bold.ttf * RobotoCondensed-Regular.ttf...
View ArticleTapGestureRecognizer sensitivity on Android
We have a xamarin forms based app. With the latest releases of Forms it works pretty quick and decent. Especially on iOS. However, I noticed something particular regarding TapGestureRecognizer on...
View ArticleGet CurrentPage
Hello, I'm trying to access a contentpage's Title property. I've heard about using the NavigationStack to get the current page, but my app is not using a NavigationStack at all. The content page is...
View ArticleHow to find the image that is not found on iOS
Hi all, I get this error: System.Exception: Could not initialize an instance of the type 'MonoTouch.UIKit.UIImage': the native 'initWithContentsOfFile:' method returned nil. It is possible to ignore...
View ArticleProblem navigating from one map page to another map page
So, I have the map working on my Android device(s), but I have a problem when there is a map on a contentpage that navigates to another contentpage with another map on it. Its as though the first map...
View ArticleSymptomless Crash using Newtonsoft in PCL
I recently moved a project I am working on over to a JSON document based backend. Serialization on the backend works just fine, all data objects are uploaded successfully, but on download, when I...
View ArticleDelivering touch events to a view outside the bounds of its parent view. [iOS]
I'm working on popup UITableView, that is shown above parent UITextField. And the problem is my tableView is not clickable at all except Vegetables item, that is placed right above the parent view. I...
View ArticleListView Image recycling
I'm using the Image class from Xamarin.Forms along with a binding using the UriImageSource. The problem is that while scrolling the ListView and new images are downloaded you often see the previous...
View ArticleListView not binding
I'm just switching over to using Xamarin forms, so I feel like this is something simple I'm missing. Here is my listview <StackLayout Orientation="Vertical" Padding="20"> <SearchBar...
View ArticleMap not drawing correctly when switching pages on Android
Here's an odd one that's blocking progress; wasted 4+ hours so far. Works on iOS, not on Droid. I have an app with 3 ContentPages. The main page ("A") has a map. Another page ("B") also has a map. The...
View Articleheader in listview
Hi. New "header" in listiview scroll when listview scroll vertically. Can I have "header" always visible? (not scrolling)
View ArticleHow to downgrade Google Play Services for XF Android to version 22.
When I added xamarin.forms.maps yesterday, it automatically installed v25. Apparently, I need to stay on v22 in order to use the maps. How can I select the version using nuget, or should I use the...
View ArticleGuidance on Android Integration Tests
Are there any tutorials on automated integration tests for Xamarin.Forms? I am satisfied with my unit tests. However, I want to test integration with my app and its dependency on the SQLite database.
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