navigation drawer hamburger button
The new stuff looks really nice! How would you go about creating a drawer layout like the one from the Android support library with the XAML layout? Can you? Is it in the pipeline if you can't?
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Adding page to navigation stack: Navigation.PushAsync(new SecondPage()); Popping page inside SecondPage: Navigation.PopAsync(); but finalizer of SecondPage has not coused. So, SecondPage occupied the...
View ArticleCrash on opening a new page
Hi I'm trying to open a new page (master-detail-pattern) and get a crash I can not debug, because the stacktrace doesn't really help: public RelayCommand<SettingsEntry> OpenCommand { get { return...
View ArticleIssue with Xamarin.Forms in windows UWP app compiled in the Release mode.
We are experiencing some issue when run the win10 UWP application compiled in release mode. In the release mode, It throws target invocation exception at run time. If we compile it in debug mode it...
View ArticlePushModalAsync with NavigationPage
In my app I want to use a navigation page for normal navigation. Occasionally I want to show a modal page and I'd like this page to be smaller than a normal page and have a transparent border so you...
View ArticleWhat is Push/Pop Modal?
What different between Navigation.PushAsync() and Navigation.PushModalAsync(). What means this modallity?
View ArticleBind image to email validator boolean
I'm trying to replicate the email validator behavior in c# and, being the rookie that I am, have had trouble making sense of the XAML example to use in my c# page. I can't figure out how to bind an...
View ArticleUnable to find a version of XF compatible with...
I have 5 packages (Xamarin.Android.Support....) that can be updated, but I have this error (for all packages...) Attempting to resolve dependency 'Xamarin.Android.Support.v7.AppCompat (= 23.1.1.0)'....
View ArticleLocalization
I'm using Xamarin Forms to deliver an app on Android and iOS that offers English and Arabic. That means I have resx files for strings, localized images assets and layout changes all contingent on the...
View ArticleObservable Collections not updating UI in Listbox (WinRT, 8.1)
Hi All, I have a page that has a ListView on it, that is bound to an ObservableCollection. In WinRT (Windows 8.1) I have noticed that when returning to a page that is already in the navigation stack...
View ArticleXAMLC and VisualStudio 2015
Hi All, I have a strange problem trying to use XAML compilation in existing Xamarin.Forms project. I have added [assembly: XamlCompilation(XamlCompilationOptions.Compile)] directive into...
View ArticleHow to set a public string value?
I have the following Content Page TitlePage.cs public string synced { get; set; } public TitlePage() { DependencyService.Get().sync(); Button btnStart = new Button { Text = "Vendors", FontSize =...
View ArticleBinding an Image to a byte[] property on a model
... is there any guidance on how to achieve this?
View ArticleLoad Image form byte[] array.
Hi, there is the posibility to load in the Xamarin.Forms Image an Image from a byte[] array? Thanks
View ArticleHiding the iOS StatusBar
I have a MasterDetail Forms app, XF 1.4. I can't seem to hide the status bar at the top of the app. iOS 8.0 and above. Ideas? I tried the old way: UIApplication.SharedApplication.SetStatusBarHidden(...)
View ArticleobservableCollection requirements
Hi Folks, I've created my own collection class that I'd like to be able to use as the ItemSource of a listView. What are the requirements to make my class work with the listview as an observable...
View ArticleListView Virtualization for Loading on Scroll
Hello all! So I'm trying to figure out how to allow for loading individual cells as you scroll through a listview. I have a database with thousands of items, and so I don't want all of them to load at...
View ArticleHow to correctly require authorization to use geolocator plugin in ios?
Hello, I'm currently use Montemagno Geolocator plugin on my app, and until the last version all seems to work fine. Some days ago I released a new version, with some bugfix and using new versions of...
View ArticleRESX Localization using a Shared Project (not PCL)
This article only covers how to do localization with a Core library of type PCL, I however, am using the Shared project type as the Core library, and it does not support .resx files, only .resw files....
View ArticleDisable/Enable IsGestureEnabled on MasterDetail not working on iOS
Hi. On iOS I needed to disable the gesture enable to open the master page on a MasterDetailPage as its content contains a swipe detector and interferes with it. If I don't disable the gesture it works...
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