Setting button background color removes material design touch feedback
How do i set the background of a button but still keep the touch feedback from android material design? <Button x:Name="login" Text="LOGIN" TextColor="White" BackgroundColor="Teal"...
View ArticleXamarin Forms 1.3 Triggers Bug
I’ve been playing with Xamarin Forms 1.3 new features to see what I can do with them and found a bug using Style Triggers in Xaml. I’ve discovered that things are ok until you add more than one Trigger...
View ArticleNew Xamarin.Forms Guide: Custom Renderers
Xamarin.Forms user interfaces are rendered using the native controls of the target platform, allowing Xamarin.Forms applications to retain the appropriate look and feel for each platform. Custom...
View ArticleWorking with referenced tables
Hi Guys, lets say i have a relation between an Invoice and an Customer. Now when the user creates a new invoice - there should be an entry field "Customer" - the field should be readonly - when...
View ArticleUI Testing: search for elements "marked" with a string but ignore case and...
Currently, when I use app.Tap I have to give it the exact string. I want to do something like app.Tap("sstring") and still match elements marked with e.g. "somessting", "someSStRing", etc. is it...
View ArticleUsing MVVM, maps and locations in xamarin forms
I have been struggling with this for weeks now and am thoroughly frustrated. Is there not an easy to follow sample project that shows how to use xamarin forms MVVM with maps and location functionality?...
View ArticleAndroid VideoView Renderer Back Button
Hey guys, I have a Xamarin.Forms app with an Android PageRenderer used to stream a m3u8 video. The renderer displays the video (after a small delay for buffering) as expected. The issue I'm running...
View ArticleXamarin Facebook iOS SDK how to handle success login?
Hi I'm using the Xamarin Facebook iOS SDK Component... When I log in I'm asking for permissions and getting the token... But I would like to do somethings after the user successfully login. How can I...
View ArticleHow to connect my SQL DataBase Server to My Xamarin forms Application?
How to connect My Xamarin forms Application to my SQL DataBase Server. Urgent plz help me.
View ArticleAdding a tap gesture to a map pin
Hi, I'm using the TwinTechsFormsLib to move add pan gestures to my forms app. It does the job brilliantly. My only issue is that I'd like to add the pan gesture to a map pin. I'm guessing I'll need to...
View ArticleIcon image on Toolbar item in xamarin Forms
Hi, I'm creating all forms UI with the code using the Shared project. I want to add the icon image to the toolbar item. Can anyone guide me how can I achieve the same ? I could not find a suitable...
View Article[Custom Renderer/XF] Getting Native Camera Stream To Work
Please, before I explain and give code snippets, note that I do not want/need what Xamarin Forms Labs offers. That camera is intent, which is impractical to me, and I want to be able to customize the...
View ArticleSystem.ArgumentException: 'jobject' must not be IntPtr.Zero
03-28 00:21:42.803 E/mono (30674): Unhandled Exception: 03-28 00:21:42.803 E/mono (30674): System.ArgumentException: 'jobject' must not be IntPtr.Zero. 03-28 00:21:42.803 E/mono (30674): Parameter...
View ArticleLine break in paragraph in Xamarin TextView
Hi All, Am binding lines of content(Dynamically) into TextView, it looks like a paragraph for whole content, how split paragraph while binding content into TextView, I tried \n, HTML line break but not...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms.Maps pins implementation
Hi guys, The Maps implementations is really puzzling. I tested on Android a couple of months ago and now tested the iOS version - they both have the same pin implementation - every time the pin...
View ArticleXamarin Forms Maps - MapSpan Zoom Level
Hi, I am struggling with the zoom levels of the MapSpan object. I have used Xamarin.Forms.Maps for the display and Geolocation to track a device. As the location of the device updates, the map is...
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Grial UI Kit for Xamarin Forms
Hi everybody! Just wanted to share with you our first Xamarin Forms User Interface Kit. And hear what you think about it Please check it out http://www.grialkit.com Thanks everybody!
View ArticleWebView not working inside MasterDetailPage Page and IsVisible causing crashes.
Hello. I followed this guide here to create a project that uses MasterDetailPage https://www.syntaxismyui.com/xamarin-forms-masterdetail-page-navigation-recipe/ But my issue is now that WebViews aren't...
View ArticleIs it possible to delay re-painting of the display until a series of changes...
Back in the days, before .Net, when developing Windows SDK applications, it was possible to stop a listbox from updating on screen whilst multiple changes were made to its content, then re-enable...
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Xamarin Forms - XAML preview
Hey everybody! We are about to release a Gorilla Player Beta, if you didn't do it already, we would like you to join in Check out super speed UI design with Xamarin Forms and Gorilla Player By the way,...
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