Improved life cycle support
Summary As one of the authors of ReactiveUI, I have found that Xamarin.Forms does not provide the requisite view life cycle hooks to enable the framework to manage the activation and deactivation of...
View ArticleIntermittent "Unable to connect to a test backend" iOS Simulator
I have a bunch of tests which are running fine about 60% of the time, but other times they will simply fail with the the "Unable to connect to a test backed running app" exception. Now, because this is...
View ArticleWeird unrecognized selector error in one project, not in the other
Hi, I'm currently in the process of making a Xamarin Forms PDF viewing component for internal use in my company, based on RadaeePDF SDK. The iOS SDK gives us a .a library, probably written in C, and a...
View ArticleDebugging Android
Yesterday I got an error while try to debug wich says "Debug will disabled" because of this error. Now I need to debug some stuff becuase I got a wired error on Android. But the break points are not...
View ArticleNavigation Drawer starting template
Why is not there a automatic option for creating a Navigation Drawer Activity instead of do it manually? Android Studio has it, and also a lot of other, such like Login Activity, Maps... etc. I used to...
View ArticleHow to define boolean key in app.xaml?
How to define a global resource dictionary boolean key, ShowMyMenu, and use it to show or hide myMenu <local:myMenu x:Name="myMenu" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand" VerticalOptions="Start"...
View ArticleUnable to see "Generate Step Definition" context menu for xamarin studio
HI, I am working on creating a specflow . After creating the feature, I want to generate the specdefinition directly . But I don't see any option. I can see the contextmenu on visual studio but not on...
View ArticleTop Visible Table Cell Not Updating After ReloadData Called
I am currently developing an application using MvvmCross and Xamarin iOS. The main view of the application is split into two. The lower half of the view is a table view. The table view is populated by...
View ArticleHow To Bind Picker in C#
how to bind picker without using bindable Property? i dont need in xml, i want to be done in class.
View ArticleOpen Universal Link from within an app with OpenUrl
We have an iOS app that is configured to open universal links. This works fine. When clicking on urls from a browser, notes or email-application, the app is opened and the correct action is taken....
View ArticleUse a third party library in C
Hello, From a Xamarin project how to call for a library written in pure C. Thank you, Christophe
View ArticleOpen an image file
Hello, How to open an image file that is in the mobile, like a selphie, from a xamarin application, and second how to view the camera and freeze the image? Thank you, Christophe,
View ArticleProblems with runtime permission dialog
Hey! There seems to be an issue with asking runtime permissions. I've tested it several ways in both Android Studio and Xamarin Studio. If the minimum android version is set (target version doesn't...
View ArticleListview with images
Hello, How to create a ListView with images, how to create a custom renderer for listview items? Thank you, Christophe
View ArticleMAC Android Emulators from Visual Studio in Parallels
Hi All, I am trying to get my Parallels Visual Studio install to talk to the Android Studio Emulators on my MAC (for whatever reason I am struggling to start the windows ones as they ask for Hyper-V or...
View ArticleIs it possible to create a fully-programmatic custom UITableViewCell without...
Programming natively with Swift, I can create a custom table view cell by inheriting UITableViewCell and overriding methods such as init() - But I'm in a world of pain trying to replicate this in...
View ArticleAudio issue
I am using MPMoviePlayerController class to play a video. Video is showing properly but no audio I am getting for iPad 9.3.5. But when ever I am playing on iPhone (8.4.1) player is working properly.
View ArticleToolbar title set center align.
how can i title will be set center align in toolbar using Android layout.
View ArticleBinding by parameter using LINQ
I have these class: https://codepaste.net/ciadta In my Page.xaml, I'd like to bind only messages from a especific conversation. For example, when user access a conversation with "To" = 456, only...
View ArticleI can't debug iOS app on device from Visual Studio
Hi, I have Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10 64-bit. And I have a Xamarin multiplatform project for iOS, Android, WinPhone 8.1, and Windows 8.1. Now I try to debug the iOS project on the device (iPhone...
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