Request: Support Visual Designer for XAML
Greetings, I am a huge fan of Xamarin and especially of the ability to leverage Xamarin Forms to create a "shared" UI for all of my common elements. That said, I find it both frustrating and...
View ArticleHow to manage Classes (serialization / saving / query them)
Hi. I'm new to Xamarin and wanted to ask what would be the best way to manage classes. I had good experience with linq2sql with c#. Is this also possible for Xamarin.Forms with X-Platform? I want to...
View ArticleHow can i draw route on map for xamarin Forms ?
Hi, I have source(current location) and destination locations, Here need to show the Route map between the locations. And How can i implement the current location changed event in Xamarin Forms.....
View Articlelistview long press/ tap delete popup
Hi, I am looking for an example to delete or edit a listview item on long tap. Is it possible or I should do that for android and iphone individually. thanks
View ArticleCorrect place to store things securely
I'm doing some work with azure mobile services which requires me to store both an application key, and also cache user authentication information locally (not passwords, just a token). Is there a...
View ArticleWebView loaded in background
I have a WebView in a ContentPage that I am instantiating and setting the url to the WebView in the constructor. I am then later showing this ContentPage with PushModalAsync. Thing is, the WebView...
View ArticleStrange behavior of Editor in TableView on Android
I can't seem to make an Editor behave properly when it is in a cell of a TableView on Android. It is also a little funky on iOS, but that can wait. I have the Editor contained in a ViewCell, which in...
View Articlecreating sqlite db on local file system
Is it possible to access local file sqlite db from android emulator? I am not sure what i am doing wrong but when I try to access the DB i created with Sqllite DB browser on my local drive, I cant read...
View ArticleUnable to scroll unless on a control
I currently have a scrollview with controls inside. However on Windows Phone when I try to scroll the page up and down, the scroll doesn't work unless I am touching a control inside that scroll view....
View ArticleGesture confusion
Hi Xamarin Experts, I desperately needed to catch scroll events in my PCL, but ran into all sorts of problems. I ended up having to catch the scroll events in Android with SimpleOnGestureListener....
View ArticleXamarin.Forms PCL and SWIG PInvoke C++
We have a core set of C++ code that we use in projects on iOS (using Objective-C++) and Android (using SWIG to Java). I would like to reuse this code in a Xamarin Forms based app, but am getting stuck....
View ArticleDeployment Error
Hey guys, I'm using Xamarin.Forms and Android emulator Nexus 4 API 21. when i compile my code, i have this error : Deployment failed because of an internal error: Installation failed due to container...
View ArticleHow to use a ListView in a layout without messing up page scrolling
What I'm trying to achieve: --- Stack Layout / Relative Layout--- - some widget (e.g. Label) - - some widget (e.g. Label) - - ListView - ------------------------------------- However, I also want the...
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Tabbed Page more selection IOS renderer
Hi I'm trying to work out if It's possible to change the more page renderer on a tabbedPage. So at the moment If I select the more button tab the following is displayed. I would like to change the...
View ArticleIs there a standard way of opening the native Contacts app for all...
Given a contact name or a combination of first name/last name/company name, I want to launch the native Contacts app on the device and have it open either the one matching contact, or if there are...
View ArticleStop Cell recycling in Xamarin Forms ListView
I have a relatively simple app in xamarin forms that has a ListView with custom cells. In these cells, there is an image. The problem that I am having is this. When I scroll the ListView, I can see the...
View ArticleError after updating to forms 2.0
After updating from Forms 1.4.0.6341 to Forms 2.0 I'm getting an error when running on iOS "Sequence contains more than one matching element" when it hits this line: this.LoadFromXaml(typeof(App)); Has...
View ArticleData binding to dictionary object
Hi, I'm creating forms with the code. I want to bind the controls on the form with dictionary keys. Is this can be done with Xamarin forms. Please help with some some sample code. Thanks
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Remove duplicate grouping headers from listview
Is there a way to remove duplicate headers from a grouped listview? Example of a grouped listview with headers:
View ArticleThe "XamlCTask" task failed unexpectedly.
Hello Team, I am facing this The "XamlCTask" task failed unexpectedly. problem after adding the xamarin.forms.maps package to my application. Waiting for your response.
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