Xamarin.InAppPurchase from Xamarin.Forms?
What's the best way to navigate to a purchase page from Forms? A custom renderer? Just wondering if anyone has any pointers, really. Obviously this part is going to be iOS-specific... i'm only...
View Article[TabbedPage] Change colors of tabs in Android
Depending on the Android theme, the tabs are showing with different background and text colors. What is the best way of customize the tabs colors? Thanks
View ArticleXamarin Forms Labs Camera
How do I use the camera feature from xamarin forms labs? How do I implement the code and such?
View ArticleFormat of BLE Services in Monkey Robotics
I am working on the monkey.robotics component for my xamarin.forms BLE app. I want to connect to a device using the standard Heart Rate profile. So I would like to skip the standard enumeration step...
View ArticleCan anyone explain this windows behaviour?
Hello, Can anyone explain to me why this code throws an unauthorized exception (only on windows): public App() { var page = new ContentPage(); page.Content = new Button { Text = "Change content",...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms UWP support & Windows 10 Mobile
Should we expect Xamarin.Forms UWP support on the day Windows 10 Mobile becomes generally available? From what I see on https://resources.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-private-preview.html, it's a "very...
View ArticleXF Android app erasing app's private data when built with code changes
Whenever there are code changes the app is replaced totally on build and deployment. This is erasing the data files that were created in earlier use of the app, like saved ListView items. How can I...
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 ArticleXamarin Forms GeoTag Camera iOS/Android
Hi all, I am having trouble trying to save an image in iOS with metadata (GPS data) information. Using the ALAssets library I am able to save the image w/ metadata to the photos library. var photo =...
View ArticleSetting a Button's TextColor in Android changes the text color for both...
I want a button's text color to be the same on both iOS and Android. So I thought I'd just set the TextColor property in code to the color I wanted. On iOS, the disabled text color is still grey (which...
View ArticleSplash Screen on an Xamarin Forms App (iOS)
Hi all, I'm beginning to love this platform!! I do have an issue that is bugging me and I just can't seem to get to work. The iOS splash Screen. I have all of the App Icons, Spotlight & Settings...
View ArticleAcr.UserDialogs.ShowLoading NOT Working Consistantly on Droid
Anyone using the Acr.UserDialogs.ShowLoading modal on Droid with any success? It seems to work pretty well on iOS, but not always and on droid, if there are more than 2-3 views on the navigation stack,...
View Articleimagecell set image size/aspect?
I'm having a hard time believing that this can't be done. am I doing somethign wrong? how do I specify the size for the image in the imagecell?
View ArticleHow to remove separator lines in Listview??
Hi, How to remove separator lines in Listview??
View ArticleHow can I tell if an image is in my resources on iOS
I have several images in my resources. I would like to display a text label if the image doesn't exist. How can I tell if the image exists on iOS? On Android I currently do...
View Articlecan not run a release build on WP81 device
HI I REALLY have a HUGE problem with my xamarin.forms app. I'm using 1.4.1 and working with System.Net.Http within my PCL. Works fine on android and iOS. Apps already submitted to app store. It also...
View ArticleHow to use INotifyCollectionChanged interface?
I am doing the following: public class myClass : INotifyCollectionChanged { public ObservableCollection<myModel> myCollection { private set; get; } public myClass() { this.myCollection = new...
View ArticleAccess Listview from App()
I have a question regarding Xamarin forms in my shared library i have a Class called BluetoothPage.cs wich will compiled in Ios,Droid and WinPhone. Now in Droid shared project i want to access the...
View ArticleAssigning a Style in custom WP renderers
I've created a custom render for my switches in WP, in this render I assign a style I've defined in the App.xaml <Style x:Key="ToggleSwitchWithMargin" TargetType="controls:ToggleSwitch">...
View ArticleUsing RabbitMQ / AMQP with Xamarin.Forms
Hello, in one of our projects we want to exchange messages between mobile devices and servers using RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ provides a .net client library, but there is no PCL or compatible nuget packages...
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