Insert a RadialProgressView in a ContentPage
Hi Community! I'm having newbie's trouble trying to integrate the RadialProgress, from Xamarin Components, into a ContentPage of my Xamarin Forms project. It works fine as an activity, just like in the...
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How do I access the contents of my ResourceDictionary that is located my App.xaml page? I am trying to make a label's text color that uses a color in my resource dictionary with key = "textColor" var...
View ArticleSaving to Photo Gallery/Camera Roll/etc
Hi folks, First off, I the possibility exists that I am old, tired, and can't read, but the possibility exists that I am also not any of these things. Do we have a cross-platform component to save to...
View ArticleCustom Renderer, surface not destructed nor disposed
I have a custom view renderer for android that works with a SurfaceView. When directly poping to root from the page that uses the custom renderer, the dispose or surface destroyed methods get called....
View Articlecom.google.android.gms.wearable does not exist
After updating project to latest version of component I get this error when trying to build my Xamrin Forms Android side of app. Any ideas as to why? I have tried reinstalling SDK to no avail
View ArticleInitializecomponent does not exist in the current context
Hi , I have updated my Xamarin Studio and Xamarin.Forms to 1.4.0.0, now when ever creating Xaml Page in portable application , i'm getting build error as "Initializecomponent does not exist in the...
View ArticlePossible to update global styles programatically?
Is it possible to update the values in global styles programatically? I have some styles like: <Style TargetType="Label"> <Setter Property="FontSize" Value="25" /> </Style> And I wish...
View ArticleAndroid UI
Hi there! I'm wondering why the tabbedPage on Android doesn't use the new support library Toolbar, I see all tabs on Android supporting swipe shown here The same goes to MasterDetail to the new...
View ArticleNavigationStack is doubling pages
Strange situation that, after searching, I haven't found anyone else running into. I have a tabbed page as my main, and when I navigate out using Navigation.PushAsync() I end up with two copies of the...
View ArticleDoes Xamarin.Forms have an equivalent to Maximize Mode on iOS?
When I worked on iOS apps in the past there was a thing called "maximize mode" where the app would be fullscreened (basically got rid of the status bar at the top of the screen). Does forms have an...
View ArticleXam.Forms.Maps - Zoom level or Similar
I am developing a system for IOS with maps using the "Xamarin.Forms.Maps". This system contains massive pins (~ 34k), the problem is that the performance is extremely slow when Zoom out which visualize...
View ArticleGetting Exif Data from XLabs MediaPicker
When I get a media file from the MediaPicker the Exif data doesn't seem to be populated. Is there something special I need to initialize to get this data? I am not inheriting XFormsApplicationDroid in...
View ArticleChanging TabbedPage Tab Colors on Android
I cant for the life of me find out how to change the TabbedPage Tab Colors on Forms 1.4+ using an implicit style in code. I can set the BarBackgroundColor on a NavigationPage but the same options dont...
View ArticleView Model instantiating multiple times
Hi, I have read that this problem had been fixed but I am experiencing it with Forms.xaml v1.4. Here is my setup: the view model is referenced in the view xaml like so BindingContext="{Binding...
View ArticleAbsoluteLayout disable Touch Trapping for iOS
We are using an absolute layout to create a composite control where two buttons are relative to each other, but there is significant space in between. The buttons sit over a map. We want the user to be...
View ArticleXAML / Event handler, no method found
Hi, Here is the code: AppMaster.xaml <MasterDetailPage Appearing="AppMaster_Appearing" ... > ... </MasterDetailPage> AppMaster.cs private void AppMaster_Appearing(Object sender, EventArgs...
View ArticleCan not access interface from my portable project to my iOS project. Simple...
I am following this tutorial and I am stuck on Step 4: Add the iOS Implementation. http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-introduction-to-xamarinforms-and-sqlite--cms-23020 the code...
View ArticleNeed to set Content Page Background color to transparent in iOS
Hi Guys Currently I am pushing a modal content page to display some content as a custom pop up. What I am doing is setting the background color of the content page to Color.Transparent and centering a...
View ArticleWEBSERVICE HTTPWebRequest request.GetResponse() DOES NOT WORK
Good afternoon, the request.GetResponse () command is not being recognized. this and example code: using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse) { if (response.StatusCode...
View ArticleHow to enable Conditional Compiler Directives for XAML
Hey guys, I am trying to setup a few detailed user controls to display information when my app runs in Debug Mode. So what I'd like to do is to enable these User Controls only if the DEBUG Flag is...
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