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Look what I made over last weekend, SliderView!!!!
Hey Forms Community! I was hacking around last weekend to make some kind of SliderView that I could use instead of a CarouselPage. I wanted to share this with the community in the hopes that it will...
View ArticleHow to cancel or handle the back button press on Navigation Bar on iOS/Android
This is such a frustrating experience probably due to either my stupidity or someone's stupidity. The OnBackButtonPressed won't be called at all. And I tried to handle the Popup event of navigation, to...
View ArticleSize of Screen in a Custom Renderer
Hello, I might ask a pretty easy question but I have been trying to get the size of the Screen in a custom renderer to change the size of a Button accordingly. I might be doing something wrong, but...
View ArticleWebView snapshot or disable interactivity
Hi All, I've got a requirement (think browser tabs) to take a snapshot/image/etc of a WebView -or- display the WebView but make it so that it can't be interacted with. To be honest, I'm at a bit of a...
View ArticleDetecting tap on different controls inside a listview cell
Two questions: In Xamarin.Forms, I have a listview. Each item is a ViewCell containing button, labels, images etc. First, I want to detect tap on each item inside a ViewCell. Meaning tap on label, tap...
View ArticleXAML Binding and Attached Properties (AbsoluteLayout in my case)
In XAML only I can't get this binding to work (the layout bounds don't get updated when the source property changes): <BoxView x:Name="leftCropBox" LayoutBounds="{Binding LeftCropBox, Mode=OneWay}"...
View ArticleIs it possible to put a WebView into a ListView and have the WebView expand...
I'm trying to put together a list of social status updates where the updates are composed of snippets of html with image tags etc. Currently I have a ViewCell that builds this and included the...
View ArticleUsing maps in Windows Phone 8.1
As I read here maps are not currently supported in Windows 8.1 or Windows Phone 8.1 projects. If not possible by using Xamarin.Forms.Maps, is there any other way to do it? Does anybody has some sample...
View ArticleDisabled button style
I'm using MVVM approach described here. To control a button behaviour I use ICommand binding with CanExecute flag. Everything works. But how can I control disabled button style (background color and...
View ArticleUpdate layout after image change
Hi I have extended the Image class and wrote a custom renderer for it. All it does is to create an empty image and then download on the background some other stuff. When it's ready, the image gets...
View ArticleBackground location updates in Xamarin.Forms. How to?
Anyone has a tutorial or some documentation to get started on this topic? I've read and downloaded the BackgroundLocationDemo that has both ios and android projects mentioned in the Xamarin...
View ArticleSetting StyleId (for UI testing) on DisplayAlert?
Is it possible to set the automation id's for popup alerts so they are testable from automated UI tests?
View ArticleSystem.Runtime reference in Visual Studio ?
Hi guys, I'm using Visual Studio 2015 and the newest Version of Xamarin-Android and Xamarin-Forms. I always get the following error messages like on the picture that I have attached to this post. And...
View ArticleChange scrollbar color of listview
Hi, is there a way to change the color of the scrollbar of the listview. I have a page with background color that about the same as the scrollbar, so the scrollbar is not even visible when scrolling....
View ArticleWidth of a picker
Hi, I am trying to set the width of a picker with the HorizontalOptions property to CenterAndExpand or FillAndExpand but the width of the picker is the width of the tittle text. For example, my picker...
View ArticleHow to open one mobile app from another mobile app in Xamarin Forms ?
How to open one mobile app from another mobile app in Xamarin Forms ?
View ArticleXamarin Forms ImageSource to Base 64 String
Hi I need to submit a image to the back-end as a base 64 string. How can I convert my ImageSource into a 64 string ?
View ArticleApp slows down over the period on Android (Memory leak?) How to fix it
Hi there, We are building one app with two screens and master detail page Categories in Master Detail page – We have 6 categories in hamburger menu.. Clicking on each category will show below page List...
View ArticleXaml Page Not Laoding
Why when am loading xaml page using following line of code it shows error System.collection.Generic.KeyNotFoundException this.LoadFromXaml (typeof(MyXamlPage));
View ArticleStackOverflowError on Android
The same application works fine on Windows Phone, but throws error on Android. Stack overflow on call to interp (req=68 top=0x56c51000 cur=0x56c4d33c size=16384 Ljava/lang/ref/FinalizerReference;.add)...
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