NavigationPage - StatusBar Color
Hi, I'm trying to set the StatusBar text color on an iOS Forms app to the light color. In the Info.plist, I've tried setting the Status bar style to both "UIStatusBarStyleLightContent" and "Transparent...
View ArticleStopping the separator lines after the end of the list
Hi, On android, when the list is complete, no more separator lines are added (2 items in the list gives 2 lines). Is there a way to achieve the same result under iOS and WinPhone?
View ArticleListview on iOS 9 not filling screen width - issue with custom ViewCell
In iOS8 a simple Listview would have separator lines that filled the width (especially in landscape mode) In iOS9 the Listview separator lines no longer fill the full width on a landscape iPad mini....
View ArticleMaster Detail Navigation using Messenger
Hi everyone, I'm making a tablet app in landscape only where the drawer is always displayed. I handled the Master/detail navigation using event as shown on the forum. It works well. Now in my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to use SVG Images as Controls and Form "Background" (or customisation)?
I tried several Nuget packages and followed their description of implementation. But since I'm very new to Xamarin and C# I can't get it to work Could someone please precisely describe how to implement...
View ArticleReusing a single CarouselPage causes leaking renderers, is this by design?
Hello Xamarin, After profiling our app we found some issues which causes memory leaks in our app. Maybe it is by design, maybe not, but this is what we found. In our app we have a single CarouselPage...
View ArticleShared aplication problem
Hello. I have trial version of xamarin and I have stuck on tests phase. I spent a few hours on that. I've created "Shared" solution from scratch. When solution is generated I can compile and run on...
View ArticleListview not scrolling when focus entry control within viewcell in...
I have entry controls within listview. When I focus entry in viewcell soft keyboad is appeared and its hidding entry control because listview not scrolling. To overcome this I tried to use listview...
View Articlecustom renderer navigation bar disappears
For my project I needed to have something to the effect of a master detail page but with the possibility of a sliding menu on either side of the screen. So I wrote my own and added custom renderers....
View ArticlePicker on WindowsPhone 8.1
Hello I try to use Picker view in PCL library and it is worked well on Android (invoking nice popup with options), but on Windows Phone 8.1 I have strange behaviour - if picker has less than 6 items...
View ArticleBuilding Interfaces: XAML vs C# Code
Hello everyone! I have a question, I recently started using Xamarin, I come from Windows and then I'm used to using XAML and C #. I noticed that many people prefer to use C # to build interfaces...
View ArticleiOS Entry Predictive Text bug?
I'm seeing a weird problem in my iOS app. I have a login page with entries/textboxes for user name and password. When I type in a value into the username, for example, and it suggests the word via the...
View ArticleXamarin Forms for Mac Apps?
Some of the apps are really famous because of apps that are accessible on desktop, be it mac or windows or web, for example Telegram, Slack, Whatsapp. One downside of going completely native mobile...
View ArticleTableview size/remove bottom "border"
I have a Tableview in a StackLayout with a ListView after it and there is always a gray space between the two. The Tableview is a form that causes the Listview to be filled with results when populated....
View ArticleWhat would you use to do a tutorial inside app? (Like How to use it)
Hello, I was wondering on How to do a "first time in app tutorial" to explain some functionalities and other stuff. I was thinking in some animations or something like that. What you guys would use to...
View ArticleHow do I Set the Icon for the MasterDetailPage Master Icon using a drawable?
How do I SetIcon for the MasterDetailPage Master Icon? The following code will only update the actionBar Icon Drawable. The MasterDetailPage.Master.Icon attribute only accepts a FileImageSource and I'm...
View ArticleHow to Xamarin Forms UI by drag and drop UI Components rather writing...
Hey, I am new to Xamarin and trying to build a simple cross platform app in xamarin forms, For designing I am not able to see any Drag and Drop interface in Xamarin studio for UI. Is there's any way we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Issue with WebView and orientation change
Hi, I have a strange issue: I created a simple WebView which is added to the center of a relative layout. My view code looks like this: var htmlTest = new WebView { Source = new HtmlWebViewSource() {...
View ArticleWhy am I getting a chunk of unused space above the page title and back button...
On Windows, I am finding that there is a chunk of unused space above the row with the back button and page title. By experimentation, I have found that I can apply a negative TranslationY of -40 on the...
View ArticleListView keep highlighted element when data refreshes
I have a ListView with ItemsSource binding. In my view model I have a selected property that is set when a list item is selected. Is it possible to bind this property to the ListView selected item in a...
View Article