Possible to push buttons to edge of stacklayout, mimicking the toolbar?
I am using a simple stacklayout to mimick a toolbar at the bottom of my app. I have a horizontal orientation on it with two buttons in it. I would like one button at the far left and one button at the...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms.Maps Pin Click Event To Launch iOS Map.app
Hello, so, I was wondering if you have access to a Pin such as the code below, can you then create an event receiver to launch the Map App programatically and send the location of the pin so that the...
View ArticleBackdoor Invoke() Error
I'm calling my backdoor method via my tests. Somehow in my AppDelegate.cs it causes the Xamarin test to crash and have an exception error: System.Exception: Error while performing Invoke("nameMethod",...
View ArticleXamarin Studio and Microsoft Band SDK
Can i use Xamarin Studio (on Mac) to develop applications with the Microsoft Band SDK or can this SDK only be used within Visual StUdio? Thanks, Guy
View ArticleAndroid accessibility Font Sizes - how it affects forms
Similar to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19817086/device-settings-independent-font-size I got my app to fit and look good on phones and tablets, then to my horror I discovered that...
View ArticleCan a parameter be passed in a binding?
Is it possible to use an indexer in a property in the Data Model? Then include that in the binding parameter? What I'd like to do, for internationalization, is have a Translator class which will return...
View ArticleAdding png to Resources\Drawable hangs Visual Studio
Every time I add a png to Visual Studio in our Xamarin.Forms Android project, Visual Studio hangs. Not sure what is causing it, but I didn't have the same issue when adding the first image to the...
View ArticleIs it Possible to disable scrolling in ListView?
I'm trying to disable scrolling in ListView in iOS when there aren't many items to take up the entire screen. Android does this naturally but iOS is still scrollable even if there are only two items....
View ArticleIs it possible to use a custom font for ToolbarItems?
I'm interested in using just text for the items in my toolbar. I am successfully seeing the text in the toolbar on top. Also, I have successfully loaded a custom font to be used on certain Buttons and...
View ArticleIs it possible to embed a Xamarin.Forms component in a native container?
I have a Xamarin.iOS app that is using multiple custom components; some written in c# and others in objective c and bound. Is it possible to host a Xamarin.Forms component in a UIView so that I can use...
View ArticleCan't change text of ToolbarItem
I've tried putting the ToolbarItem in using XAML as well as creating it in the code behind. The item shows up, but I am unable to change the text on it. I tried using the Name as well as Text property....
View ArticleSearchBar.BackgroundColor ignored (iOS)
I'm trying to style the Xamarin.Forms SearchBar and I can see that there is a BackgroundColor property, however no matter what I set, the property is ignored in iOS. Is it even possible to customize...
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Problem with image size
Hello i'm trying to make 2 big image fit next to another in my screen but i can't seems to make it work I tried with stacklayout and with grid 2x1 and had different problem this is my images : var left...
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AutoComplete Xamarin Forms Cross Platform Sample
Attached is a snapshot of our app. For the "Area" section we have almost 3000 items. If we used a spinner or picker it would be very user unfriendly to let him scroll through the whole list till he...
View Articlehow to update the apk when click on update button in xamarin forms? with...
i have one sample login screen with contain some controls like entry,button. after updating the apk i don't want loose my previous fields. i want update that apk with some changes
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LoadApplication issue in project.droid
I am working through the Xamarin Forms Samples and I am having issues with this line shown not compiling. I am in MainActivity.cs Under the Android section of a PCL Xamarin Forms project. It was...
View ArticleOverride/cancel pop when hardware back button pressed using NavigatePage
Is there anyway to achieve this? Thanks, Stuart
View ArticleNot able to see Windows and IOS folders when I create the Xamarin Forms Projects
Hi , I have installed Xamarin Studio and required tools(SDK,NDK,GTK and JDK).My Xamarin studio is working fine but one thing is I am not able to get the Windows and IOS folders when I create the...
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Nexus 10 ActionSheet looks like dialog not ActionSheet. Is this a bug?
on Nexus 10 I am displaying an ActionSheet like so: _page.DisplayActionSheet(title, cancel, destruction, buttons.Select(x => x.Value).ToArray()); and according to this page:...
View ArticleHow to extend Android ActionBar functionality for the NavigationPage?
I want to extend the NavigationPage functionality by making it possible to add a background image to the navigation bar(iOS)/action bar(Android). Therefore I have extended the NavigationRenderer for...
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