How do you create a Material MasterDetailPage?
Hi! I'm creating an app using the MasterDetailPage. I was inspired from Hanselman and have used a bit of his code. Everything is going pretty good, but I have a hard time designing the NavigationDrawer...
View Articlecross platform FontFamily
Hi there, I need to specify different FontFamily for different Labels in my app. I need to use the default fonts (e.g. Roboto for Android and Helvetica for iOS) with their modifications (e.g. Light,...
View ArticleFix for Button Layout Bug on Android
If you've run into the same problems with layout on buttons that I have where when you either add other controls, or even just do things like set text on labels, and you're finding that the Button text...
View ArticleSiddique Ahmad
I am new to xamarin Forms.When I am running xamarin forms app in an emulator it is showing that unfortunately App has stopped.Can anybody help me on this issue.
View ArticleRelative binding in C#?
Hi to all. I am implementing a custom **ViewCell **in code, and I want to bind the Command property of a button inside the ViewCell to a command in my ViewModel. In XAML, I can do it: <Button...
View ArticleStacklayout/ScrollView extremly slow in Windows Phone...?
Hi all I my app, I show (inter alia) an detail-page with a StackLayout in a ScrollView. The data are queried from a web-service. While the page is shown in about a second in iOS and Android, it takes...
View ArticleBug, iOS, Label with StartAndExpand HorizontalOptions does not expand if...
Hello there, Because a picture is worth a thousand words, let's start with this: As you can see, I am trying to build rows with a left-aligned Label (LayoutOptions.StartAndExpand) and a right-aligned...
View ArticleButton inside ListView
Hi all, I think I have found a possible bug on Xamarin Forms (android): when you add a button to a ListView ViewCell, the selectedItem binding property stops working on Android (it still works on iOS)....
View ArticleHow to change the highlight color for selected item in the listview?
I'm working with Xamarin Forms ListView and trying to change the highlight color for selected item because right now for Android version, the highlighted item has black color. I'm using DataTemplate to...
View Article'System.ArgumentNullException' occurred in Xamarin.Forms.Platfrom.WinRT.DLL"
I am getting "A first chance exception of type 'System.ArgumentNullException' occurred in Xamarin.Forms.Platform.WinRT.DLL" exception. While doing implementation in Windows 8.1 project using Xamarin....
View ArticleAnyone tried a Camera Crop / Resize Overlay?
We're currently using Xamarin forms for an app where you can take a picture and store it on the database. We're using XF Labs (https://github.com/XForms/Xamarin-Forms-Labs) for the camera function and...
View ArticleSignature or Photo
Hi, Am having a registration form once the detail is filled the person need to make a signature below it. We need to migrate this process in mobile. So how to handle signature concept in mobile...
View ArticleProblem with ItemAppearing event in ListView
I'm trying to do dynamic data load in ListView when scrolling to the end. For this, I use the event ItemAppearing. The problem is that when I first add data ItemSource, the event ItemAppearing is...
View ArticleApplication.Current.Properties not persisting on WindowsPhone - works fine on...
Hi! So I have this problem where Application.Current.Properties won't persist on Windows Phone, but it works properly on iOS. Android I'm not sure of, because I currently don't have a licence for...
View ArticleUI does not responds/updates while rapid view model data updates in thread
Hi, I'm working in a Xamarin Forms app that must display rapid changing numbers on the screen. For the sake of explaining let's say I have four labels on the screen which display multiple values that...
View ArticleDelivering touch events to a view outside the bounds of its parent view. [iOS]
I'm working on popup UITableView, that is shown above parent UITextField. And the problem is my tableView is not clickable at all except Vegetables item, that is placed right above the parent view. I...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms iOS statusbar color
I am building an application in Xamarin.Forms, on the iOS app I want the status bar color to be white. After a while I managed to achieve this by doing the following, App.cs public App() {...
View ArticleYour experiences with update to Win10 + VS2015…?
Hi all I work with Win 8.1 and VS2013 Update 2 and XF 1.4.4 “stable” and XLabs right now. On the base of various reasons, I have to update to Windows 10 and VS2015 in the near time. As we develop also...
View ArticleAdding png to Resources\Drawable hangs Visual Studio
Every time I add a png to Visual Studio in our Xamarin.Forms Android project, Visual Studio hangs. Not sure what is causing it, but I didn't have the same issue when adding the first image to the...
View ArticleXamarin.Forms Build dynamic grid how to set style from ResourceDictionary
Hi, I'm building a grid from my controller code but would like to use the style I defined in my ResourceDictionary (mLabelStyle). Does anyone know how to set this style? Thanks! <Application...
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