Retaining page Navigation stack when app is killed
Is there a simple way to retain the current navigation stack of pages in Application.OnSleep to be reinstated in Application.OnResume? I tried the following: protected override void OnSleep () {...
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Hello, Do you know if it is possible to remove a row from a grid? I've tried myGrid.Children.Remove(myView) but nothing happened. Thanks !
View ArticleListview - Separator do not display while they do when I pull the list
Hi, Create a new Xamarin Forms project. Add a listview as the sole element of your MainPage content. Try in iOS simulator: no separators (while I made them green...). Pull the list and you'll see the...
View ArticleFontFamily - is there a list of families that work across platforms?
With the font changes in Xamarin.Forms 1.3, I am re-factoring to get rid of warnings that now appear. Whilst doing this, I was looking at specifying the FontFamily for visual elements, but have failed...
View ArticleIOS startup speed problems
Hello I have written an app in xamarin forms. the main page of the app consists of a tabbed page with 3 sub pages in it. when the app starts i want to display a modal to the user first before they get...
View ArticleAndroid Video Player using Xamarin.Forms
I am trying to get a video player working in my Xamarin.Forms app on Android. I have implemented the iOS version using a ScrollViewRenderer where I add the MPMoviePlayerController (code at bottom, file...
View Article"Aapt" task could not be instantiated
Hi I'm new in this forum, I'm creating application using Xamarin.Forms after building my solution it showing me some messages regarding AndroidManifest.xml & error like "Aapt" task could not be...
View Articlewhy switch is not displayed in off mode, while the background is in white color?
set Build > General > Target Framework to "Android 5.0.0 (Lollipop)"? please help me, I want to display switch in Lollipop version of android. it not displayed properly . I tried on render like...
View ArticleBluetooth, Monkey.Robotics -- Forms?
Hi, I'm doing some R&D work on connecting to Bluetooth LE devices. I'm also trying out the Xamarin platform at the same time. I'm a little confused on the direction of Xamarin forms as well as the...
View ArticleBinding values in custom ViewCell
Hi All, I have to identify which Switch control was toggled to get the Id of the corresponding row. So far I have this kind of implementation which is working as I want, but it is not elegant in my...
View ArticlePorting Java code to C# (android-auto-scroll-view-pager github)
Repo: https://github.com/Trinea/android-auto-scroll-view-pager I have been trying to port it into c# but no successful using System; using Java.Lang.Ref; using Java.Lang.Reflect; using Android.Content;...
View ArticleXAML / Self binding, bindingcontext
Hello, I want to bind the text property of a editor element to BindableProperty. Here is what I tried: MyForm.xaml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <ContentPage x:Class="Com.Acme.MyForm"...
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MasterDetailPage on WP8.1, disabling appbar and menu placement
I'm using MasterDetailPage, but I need to change two things. First I wanna see the app bar with menu button only on HomePage, right know every subpage has the app bar, which I don't wanna see. On...
View ArticleListView with bound source doesnt work in more complex xaml
Hi, I encourage weird problem today. I have simple listview with 2 properties bound. It works like a charm when my Xaml looks like this: <StackLayout> <ListView x:Name="mylist"...
View ArticleCan't establish Socket connection
Hi, I am using @RyanDavis 's sockets-to-pcl plugin in a xamarin.form project. I am following the tcpSocketClient sample code posted in the GitHub repository https://github.com/rdavisau/sockets-for-pcl...
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How to make .Forms stable…?
Unfortunately, I don’t think (but hope) that this posting will change things, but I have to write it (the hope dies last). Today (2015-05-19), I personally have 25 filled bugs in Bugzilla 11 of the 25...
View ArticleSuddenly getting error in init of instance of UIKit.UIImage?
I haven't upgraded the recent upgrades to XS, X.Android and X.iOS. All of a sudden I am getting the following error: System Exception has been thrown Could not initialize an instance of the type...
View ArticleTableView rendering on Android (Settings app like)
I am using the TableView for the Menu page, on iOS the rendering is acceptable (attachments: iOS - Settings app and iOS - menu page). On Android however, the rendering of the TableView does not yet...
View ArticleXamarin Chat
I am a part of some really great StackOverflow chat rooms, but unfortunately the Xamarin room is always empty. I would love to see some active devs start to idle in there. It could be a great resource...
View ArticleCustom TabbedRenderer to set tab text color on Android
I found an iOS render: http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/17811/tabbedpage-tabbar-background-color-tint but I can't seem to find a similar Android rendered to set to set the tab text color. I found a...
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