Displaying app's build information
Hi, I need to show the build information ( build date and environment(Adhoc/Distribution) in my app which is for three platforms.I am able to get the version number .Pasted the code below.I will also...
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Webview Post request windows phone 8.1
Hello friends, I am trying to do a post request in web view, I am receiving a success response but in actual I am unable to login on webpage. I have login page I don't want user to enter username and...
View ArticleSqlite transaction timeout failure in Xamarin.Forms app running on iOS device
I have a Xamarin.Forms app being built for iOS and Android that uses sqlite for data storage. In the iOS version, we call directly into the sqlite APIs instead of using something like...
View Articleis there a good solution for Display EMOJI in ASP.NET(Web),Xa.forms and...
We are making a CRM with chat module using ASP.NET and Xamarin Studio, and have ASP.NET, Xamarin.Mac, Xamarin.Forms and GTK# platform, How to make a good solution for Display EMOJI in all those...
View ArticleProblem binding data across content pages on iOS Forms app.
I have a problem with binding across pages. (simplified) A project has a view model consisting of a static class with a single string property Name. Content Page1 is set as the BindingContext for the...
View ArticleSeeing Beacons in the background on Android in a X.F PCL solution.
So its straight forward enough to monitor for beacons in the foreground in a PCL with the Androids MainActivity being the IBeaconConsumer. But I'm not sure how to get background monitoring working, as...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms 2.0 issues
I just recompiled my project with Xamarin.Forms 2.0 and found Application.Current.SavePropertiesAsync is not working as expected in "Release" mode. I used the following code to save the login email...
View ArticleListview Page that functions like Android List Activity
Does anyone have a good example of using a page and having it function in a similar fashion to Android List Activities? Need to have a form use that as a "picker" rather than an actual picker and will...
View ArticleTabbed Page with tabs from ViewModel
I have a tabbed page that is loaded after another page and the tabs can be different based upon context from the previous page. I am trying to follow MVVM and the only thing that is in the code behind...
View ArticleNavigation HasBackButtonProperty Binding Refresh
I have set a binding this.SetBinding(NavigationPage.HasBackButtonProperty, "BackButtonDisplayed"); and when I change the value in my view model, the back button disables (which is better than nothing)...
View ArticleSaving Application.Current.Properties with Xamarin Forms Android Release Build
I have an application where I'm trying to save user preferences. This works fine with a debug build for Android. The preferences are saved and the user data is stored without any issues as long as I'm...
View ArticleSetting the arrow on the appear in android
So I have this issue, i can set the background colour of the app bar and i can set the font colour used on the app bar in android but i can't change the colour of things like the back arrow that is...
View ArticleButton.Text not consistent across platforms, why?
In Android, it is displayed all caps. Can we display text in normal case, as it is set. In iOS, meaningless hiding of text is happening. Three dots replace the center text. And I see 3 dots replacing...
View ArticleMVVM Two way binding on Entry inside the Appearing event handler
I have a Xamarin Forms content page with the following structure and code behind and I am trying to update the UI Entry Text by updating the ViewModel property inside the Appearing event handler (I am...
View ArticleApplication Output window flooded by strange error message when debugging my...
I am current getting this strange message that floods my application output window. This means I can't see any debug output. This only happens when I run my XF app in debug mode on my device and not...
View ArticleFeasibility for Xamarin.Forms for Mac
We have a client that has a .Net windows forms applications that they are interested into bringing to the Mac. Xamarin is a great fit as the business logic is available in PCL. I attempted to use...
View ArticlePlaying audio files in xamarin forms
Hi, Can anyone tried to play audio files in the application using xamarin forms.If so please show me a way to implement this. Thanks , sunil
View ArticleOnResume for ContentPage
Hi, I close a ContentPage with Navigation.PopAsync() and want to recognize on the resulting ContentPage that its on the top now. I am looking for something like "OnResume". Is it possible? Thanks
View ArticleCan the padding between rows in a Grid be changed?
Hi there, I'm having a little trouble using the Grid layout in Xamarin Forms. I am using a Grid in my application, which contains a number of rows, each containing a label and a picker, side by side. A...
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