How to make a Tiled Background for iOS and Android?
Hi, How to make a Tiled Background for iOS and Android? If anyone has something ready? else I will do it with custom renderering
View ArticleHow to specify sign-in policies for Azure AD B2C for a Xamarin.Forms (iOS) app?
Hi, My current status is: Xamarin Noob I have used the following sample iOS project as provided here: https://blog.xamarin.com/put-adal-xamarin-forms/ The sample is pretty straight forward and I can...
View ArticleHow to retrieve mail attachments using IMAP ?
How to retrieve and download mail attachments using IMAP ?.
View ArticleChanging ListView's ItemsSource causes an out of range exception in Windows...
There appears to be a bug in the ListView control for Windows Store apps. If you try to change the ItemsSource after it is loaded it throws an exception. The same exception is thrown if I initially...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms.Picker Class Causes App Crash on Android
We took the C# Picker class example from https://developer.xamarin.com/api/type/Xamarin.Forms.Picker/ and are experiencing a crash on Android (Kitkat and Lollipop builds) - This works fine on IOS To...
View ArticleUnable to find NameValueCollection in Xamarin.Forms project.
Hi, Does anybody knows where can I find NameValueCollection in Xamarin.Forms portable project? Referring to this link I have check for NameValueCollection class under System.Collections.Specialized...
View ArticleUsing Xamarin.Forms.Maps for offline use?
Hello Is it possible to use Xamarin.forms.maps for offline use? and if it is, any documentation on it? Else if I wanna add OsmSharp to Xamarin.forms, how do i make custom renderer, that renders Map...
View ArticleIs it possible Set ActionBar Title to Bold in Android?
I have got a NavigationRenderer like so: [assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(NavigationPage), typeof(MyApp.Droid.CustomRenderers.CustomNavigationPageRenderer))] namespace...
View ArticleUsing Android.support.V4.App.FragmentActivity in places of Android.App.Activity
Hi, I try to build a PCL application using (for Android) Android.support.V4.App.FragmentActivity in places of Android.App.Activity as start activity. Is it possible? If possible, what about the...
View ArticleHow to create button pressed effect?
Hello, I need to create a button/image/whatever that changes image while pressed to create the button pressed effect. How can i get to the 'while pressed' state? Even if using custom renderers, i cant...
View ArticleAdjust entry in the Grid
I have a Grid with 2 columns, and I want to adjust an Entry in the right column. However, the Entry goes down to the next row and grow to the both columns. Any way to solve it? I already tried to use a...
View ArticleHow to block user interaction while activity indicator is running?
Hi, I need to block the entire page from user interaction until activity indicator is running.Please help. Thanks
View ArticleGrid - column headers?
Is it possible to add a column header to a grid within a listview? Or, should I look at using a tableview instead?
View ArticleProtecting local proprietary data in an app
I have a Xamarin.Forms app that uses a local SqLite database as its source for data. The data is proprietary, so I want to protect it so that if someone gets access to the database file, they would...
View ArticleiOS and Android dependency classes' inheritance causes "You must add a...
In my Xamarin.Forms project I have a dependency interface `/* * Interface to get device IP address on network, implemented natively in .Droid's and .iOS's IPAddressManager.cs */ public interface...
View ArticleUse C++ type without copying
Dear all, Being a newbie I don't know if this is a recurrent topic... please forgive the question if this is the case. I have a Xamarin.Forms test application that I'd like to link with a C++ library....
View ArticleWhy is Resource Dictionary a Sealed Class?
Why is Resource Dictionary a Sealed Class? It means I cannot do <ResourceDictionary> <Style> ... </Style> </ResourceDictionary> Any valid reason or is it a bug that needs...
View Articleerror when set Selected Item or Current Page in Carousel Page (Android)
I tried to set Selected Item and Current Page in Carousel Page when i want to see specific item when Carousel page showing. But it's not working. First item or 2 last item of ItemsSource work correct,...
View ArticleXAML Constructor Parameter with Binding
I have a custom renderer to display a video player, which takes in one parameter: the URL of the video. It works fine, even in XAML: <ui:VideoContentView x:Name="Video"> <x:Arguments>...
View ArticleIssue with LG G3?
I've got an XF app that I am writing. I have some devices running Android 4.4, 5.0, and 5.1.1. The system that is running Android 5.0 is an LG G3. The app running on the LG G3 is causing the phone to...
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