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Toolbar area stays visible when navigating to a page without toolbaritems...
Hi, I'm having some trouble with the toolbar on WinPhone. When navigating from one ContentPage with toolbaritems to another without toolbaritems, the second page shows a black area (where the toolbar...
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How do you toggle between two views?
We have a ListView with two possible item layouts, how do we toggle between them? We tried using the IsVisible property, but when the 2nd StackLayout is invisible, it still allocates its height onto...
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Is it possible to do UI debugging when using VS 2015? I guess on xamarin android player will not work for it. how about visual studio emulator?
View ArticleiOS MPMoviePlayerViewController goes blank after a few seconds
I'm having a weird issue with MPMoviePlayerViewController. public override void ViewDidLoad() { base.ViewDidLoad(); var f = new...
View ArticleBoolean Property and StreamImageSource result of converter not recieveing a...
Hey there, Me and the team decided to upgrade to Xamarin Forms 2.0 soon after it came out. We started seeing two problems that we have not been able to fix and no one else seems to have. Namely: 1) We...
View ArticleSetting shadow on detail page in MasterDetailPage
I am trying to recreate this UI. Screenshot I'm using a MasterDetailPage. In the existing app the background of the master page and the detail page are white. To separate them, the detail page has a...
View ArticleSearchbar = fullscreen in landscape on android, How do i prevent this?
I have a view that contains a listview with a searchbar in the listview header. When in landscape focusing the searchbar the search "field" desides to go fullscreen. Is there anyway a custom renderer...
View ArticleChart
I am learning xamarin and I want to add a chart to an application a developing. Is there anywhere I can work with chart without buying from telerik and other. I mean is there anyway I can design my own...
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Launching a new content page from webpage URL
Hi, I am bringing an iOS app over to forms and for the most part, it's not been too difficult. Okay, a bit sluggish in some parts for Android and with some very odd results on WinPhone, but on the...
View ArticleUpload Picture Windows Phone
Hi, i'm trying to upload a picture to a windows phone 8.1 app xamarin forms. When I call it I open this which opens the interface to select a picture FileOpenPicker filePicker = new FileOpenPicker();...
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Hide action bar on initial screen on android
Hi All I'm facing an issue which several people have faced but no workaround posted by others worked for me. Have a look here! The issue is obvious, I have no content on the main screen except the...
View ArticleHTML Editor Control availablity for Xamarin.Forms
Hi all, Is there a readily available HTML Editor Control available to be used in Xamarin.Forms? We need to Have HTML Edit capabilities on a mobile application of ours. Thanks, regards Jörg Fischer
View ArticleSwipe between list items detail view page
I have a list view on view XAML on SelectedItem i go to another view which is ContentPage for detail of the item selected now i want to swipe left for next item of list open in detail view , like gmail...
View ArticleUpdating to Forms 2.0.0 throws Layout cycle detected. Layout could not...
Updating to Forms 2.0.0 throws Layout cycle detected. Layout could not complete exception in WindowsPhone and WinRT. In Android and iOS, I dont experience any crash, but it makes a strange behavior to...
View ArticleBest approach for Item Display/Edit pages
Hi, very often we are faced with the requirement to have a page that displays the details of an Item (e.g. a contact) where you have a ActionBar button that switches the page into edit mode. What is...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 / Windows phone 8.1 / Windows 10 related issues
Hi I have a published application built on Xamarin.Forms for Android and iOS and unrelated version for Windows Store. Recently I dove into migrating my Windows Store version to Xamarin.Forms. Windows...
View ArticleXamarin Forms slow loading view.
Hi, Currently I am trying to retrieve 40 images via a local stored database. When I recieve the images I am putting a opacity overlay over it and store this in a absolute layout. But this appears to be...
View ArticleDesign issues with xamarin forms 2.0
Hello all, I have 1 issue with the design. In my project, I have Reset Password View. There are two ways to go at this page. When I m going from 1st way then the design of this page is not looking...
View ArticleCant build Binding Objective-C libraries sample in release device mode
Hello, I try to build this example using Release mode for device, but get errors https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/ios/advanced_topics/binding_objective-c/binding_objc_libs/...
View ArticleAfter implementing Material Design for Android, crashes app on start
Hi there, I implemented Material Design in my Xamarin.Forms app using both links, however in both cases when i run app, it crashes. Please advise...
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