Custom Font in Xamarin.Forms (Font Awesome)
Is it possible to use custom ttf font in Xamarin.Forms pages for elements like icons in the action bar, etc? (FontAwesome ttf) How does ImageSource.FromResource method work? Does it handle multiple...
View ArticlePageRenderer for a WinRT app (not windows phone)
Is it possible to create a Xamarin.Forms PageRenderer for a Windows WinRT app page? I've looked for documentation or samples but haven't found any yet. This is the approach I've started with;...
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TabbedPage with NavigationPage as children
I have a client who wants to have a MainPage with three Tabs, each of these tabs has a NavigationPage as the first child to keep the navigation local to each tab. The tab bar in the bottom should...
View ArticleXamarin Forms STILL recycling images in ListView in latest release
So there have been previous threads on this, but images are STILL being recycled in the latest release of Xamarin Forms. So I use a single image on the left, that is downloaded from a URL. The listview...
View ArticleXamarin Forms extra spacing on TableView Switchcells
There is this unnecessary cells in every table section of my TableView. Does anyone know why and how to fix it?
View ArticleOpening a Page from background
I managed to open a new Form from a Push Notification and it opens perfectly when the app is visible, it even opens when the app is not visible (minimized or running in background) and when I then open...
View ArticleHow to open a PDF (Android) that you downloaded (SOLUTION)
I've seen a lot of questions on how in Android to view a PDF that was downloaded by the app. Here's an easy solution I found that works for me. My app downloads report pdfs and need to show them....
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It is better to use Label.FormattedText instead of Labels in an horizontal...
Hello. For a ListView, I want to show some labels, in the same line but with different style. My question is if, in terms of performance, is it better to use Label.FormattedText instead of an...
View ArticleSwipe Gesture on Relative Layout
have a Xamarin App which I am trying to add swipe gesture recogniser to a Relative Layout via Custom Renderer. public class MainPageCarouselRenderer : VisualElementRenderer<RelativeLayout> {...
View ArticleOnStart, OnSleep, and OnResume not called
Hello, I created a Xamarin.Forms Shared application and noticed that OnStart, OnSleep, and OnResume are never reached. OnStart should be called in Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init am I right ? Why are all of...
View ArticleUIBarButtonItem Refresh
I have a UIBarButtonItem that is behaving inexplicably in a Xamarin Forms app targeting iOS and Android. The goal is to have a button on the top right of the nav. The button is a shopping cart and a...
View ArticleXLabs - Take Photo, save it, close app, retrieve it again
If this question has already been answered, please let me know. I am about 3 weeks into using Xamarin and so far I like it. I am working on an app where I am allowing the user to take a picture. I am...
View Articlehtml formatting text to put on a label ,
html formatting text to put on a label , I have a htm tag my html </ b> and need to format to put on a label anyone know how to do?
View ArticleUsing ContentPage.IsBusy
Is the "IsBusy" property of a ContentPage supposed to do anything out of the box? Setting it to true seems to have no effect (running on Android right now).
View ArticleHow to put a control over other control (listview)?
Hello guys, I have a AutoCompleteView from XLabs, but when the suggestion list appears push the others controls down, how can I make the list view appears over the other controls ??
View ArticleHow to catch A geolocation error occured: PositionUnavailable?
I'm getting crashes with the unhandled exception "A geolocation error occured: PositionUnavailable" But the only place that I think I am calling anything geolocation related is the following: try {...
View ArticleCustom vector drawings
I want to draw vectors and shapes on a canvas using Xamarin.Forms. Is that possible using Xamarin.Forms now or will it in the future?
View ArticleCannot delete String: it has no PK
Hi, I have a SQLite database, each table having an autoincrement ID field as a primary key. Then I want to clear a table, I pass a table name into a routine and do... public static async Task...
View ArticleCan I scale my TitleIcon image to fit into my NavigationPage?
I'm trying to put the product logo in my NavigationPage but sizing has been a pain in the butt. Do I have to have the perfect size image to use it in the NavigationPage? And if so, what is the optimal...
View ArticleNo installed provisioning profiles match the installed iOS code signing keys.
Good afternoon, I have a big problem and I can not resilver , I have everything set up correctly, my certificates my devices , my iOS Provisioning , and my x code , except that when I release in my...
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