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Your experiences with update to Win10 + VS2015…?
Hi all I work with Win 8.1 and VS2013 Update 2 and XF 1.4.4 “stable” and XLabs right now. On the base of various reasons, I have to update to Windows 10 and VS2015 in the near time. As we develop also...
View ArticleAdding png to Resources\Drawable hangs Visual Studio
Every time I add a png to Visual Studio in our Xamarin.Forms Android project, Visual Studio hangs. Not sure what is causing it, but I didn't have the same issue when adding the first image to the...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms Build dynamic grid how to set style from ResourceDictionary
Hi, I'm building a grid from my controller code but would like to use the style I defined in my ResourceDictionary (mLabelStyle). Does anyone know how to set this style? Thanks! <Application...
View ArticleStyles defined in App.xaml Resource Dictionary are not created at runtime
I'm trying to counteract my preference for a code-based UI by using XAML whenever possible. I watched the video "What's New in Xamarin Forms 1.3" (which is excellent) and ran a few examples including...
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XLabs RadioButton Text padding
Hi guys, does anybody knows how to add some padding between the radio button and the text, I'm using the XLabs BindableRadioGroup this way: <StackLayout Orientation="Vertical" Padding="20">...
View ArticleXamarin ios should remote the Simulator on MacOS to my Windows box
I just thought about this and am sure you guys all thought about it before me... Buy wouldn't it be great if icould launch my xamarin forms ios app from visual studio and it would use the mac build...
View ArticleConsistency error: you are calling a UIKit method that can only be invoked...
Got an issue report from Insights. Can't find any clue about this. Please advise.! UIKit.UIKitThreadAccessExceptionUIKit Consistency error: you are calling a UIKit method that can only be invoked from...
View ArticleNotification with the aplication in background
On iOS: With the application closed, when I tapped in a notification in the Notification Center, my application is created and I can read the info of the notification and treat the action. With the...
View Article(the ever popular) Xamarin.Forms TabbedPage navigation question
Hi, I defined a TabbedPage as shown below. I would like to find out how I can navigate from the different tab child pages (e.g. MainMenuPage which is a NavigationPage) to other child pages...
View ArticleRelative layout behavior or creating custom control.
Hello. I'm trying to create message contol wich should look like this: http://imgur.com/bl2HWsf I think it should be relative layout where I will add CircleImage, Frame with rounded corners and...
View ArticleNull Exception when calling Navigation.* (Push, Pop, PopToRoot)
Forgive me if this question has been answered before, but I did some searching and all I could find is some iOS stuff. I'm working on an app where you can take a photo and upload it to a cloud...
View ArticleTableView Editing Mode
Is there support for getting a TableView into editing mode? I tried using a TableViewRenderer and putting the UITableView in this.Control into editing mode, which only sort of worked. And setting the...
View ArticleIs there a way to tell if an item is currently visible with a stack layout...
I was wondering if there is a quick property for a ViewCell to tell if it is currently on screen or if the scroll view currently would need to be scrolled to see the item?
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}"...
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How do I change the color of a selected item on a ListView?
I'm creating a ListView that has some simple items inside a ViewCell. When I select one of the items it becomes orange. When I click and hold (to open the context actions) it becomes white......
View ArticleStarting and cancelling an asynchronous task
I have a XAML-based Xamarin.Forms page with some buttons bound to commands (implementations of the “System.Windows.Input.ICommand” interface) defined as properties of my ViewModel, which is in the...
View ArticleHow to send email in iOS using Xamarin Forms - iOS project?
Don't give me the Xamarin recipe link for Send an Email. That doesn't work for Xamarin Forms. Help me with something that works in XF.
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I have all my assets in SVG format. How can I convert them to a XAML or...
I'd love to switch to Xamarin.Forms to make crossplatform apps, but I have all my graphic UI assets in SVG format. Here is an example of a buttons set created by me with Inkscape: ] You can download...
View ArticleGettting error while building Android application in VS2013
Getting following error while building Android application in VS2013 : Could not find type 'Org.Apache.Http.Impl.Client.DefaultHttpClient' in assembly 'AndroidSDKLibrary, Version=14.0.0.27225,...
View ArticleBind a Command from list view itemTemplate (MenuItem)
Hi all, I have a list view, and I am using Xamarin Forms Content Actions functionality to add some swipe functionality. var moreAction = new MenuItem { Text = "Add Result", }; ContextActions.Add...
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