How to navigate to a page and reset the 'stack'
My app has a few introductory screens for first launch. Once the user gets through these, I want to transition the user to the "main screen" in a way where the back button will not take the user back...
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Video on making custom renderers!
Hey guys, Mark Smith has made a nice video on making custom renderers. Edit - Disregard following paragraph, he fixed it. The exact means of implementation for the rounded corners in the video could...
View ArticleProblem rendering storyboard
I get an error when trying to open my story board There was a problem rendering this document. With the following details: System.AggregateException: One or more errors occured --->...
View ArticleWhat's the best approach to sharing code using Parse SDK on iOS/Android?
I'm curious as to what the best approach would be to maximize the amount of shared code using the Parse SDK or Parse REST API. I'm thinking that a Core project with file linking using the Parse...
View ArticleUninstalling
Hi, Is there a script or program to uninstall Xamarin Studio? I want to make sure I get all the startup items, not just the app in /Applications itself.
View ArticleIs it possible to get the navigationbar view from a NavigationPage?
Is it possible to get the navigationbar view from a NavigationPage? It would be nice to be able to add custom subviews to the navigation bar.
View ArticleContribute to the Xamarin Forms Toolkit
Hi, i just started a open source project with the aim to fill the gap for some missing controls on Xamarin Forms, as well as providing to the community helpers/services to help cross platform...
View ArticleUITableView Sections
I have the following code , yet there is no section groups when I run the app , does anybody have any ideas ? public class ScheduleList : UITableView { public ScheduleList (RectangleF frame) :...
View ArticleApp prefs not set while app is running in the background
I have a Settings.bundle defined with various settings for my app. I'm having an issue retrieving settings when the app is running. Here is my scenario: Start my app... Dismiss the app via the home...
View ArticleDoes iOS support any form of IPC?
We need to integrate with a 3rd party iPhone Objective-C app. I just learned that Xamarin cannot build a library that Objective-C app can call. Does iOS support inter-process communications (IPC)? Is...
View ArticleMVVM/Xaml example
Is there any sample code/project that shows a good implementation of Mvvm with Xaml for Forms? I'm migrating a Windows Phone app to a Shared Forms project and not sure really how to wire up the VM with...
View ArticleVS hangs on 'Packaging application' after updating to Xamarin 3
I cannot deploy my app to device after installing Xamarin 3, VS says 'Packaging application', after ~1 minute it show 'Not responding'...
View ArticleHow to supply a Xamarin.Form DataTemplate within a Custom Renderer to a...
Hi there, I was hoping to implement a custom renderer for a HorizontalListView. Ive added two properties to the HorizontalListView; ItemsSource and ItemTemplate. In the customer renderer for this view...
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How to use the control defined in another assembly, by XAML?
I tried to use the custom control by XAML. For example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"...
View Articletypeof(T).GetCustomAttribute undefined in a Xamarin.Forms shared project
I have tried quite a few alternatives to this and none of them works. Any suggestions?
View ArticleBug - binding properties which are not string
Android If a property is of e.x. bool or DateTime type cellSyncLabel.SetBinding(Label.TextProperty, new Binding("LastSync", BindingMode.Default, null, null, "F")); // ERROR !! - also tried {F} etc...
View ArticleXamarin.iOS accessing app store and calendar
Hi, I was wondering what the Xamarin.iOS equivalent was for Xamarin.Android's StartActivity(new Intent(Intent.ActionView, Android.Net.Uri.Parse("market://developer?id=enter+search+here"))); and...
View ArticleHow do you specify settings for different envionments? (Dev/Qa/Uat/Prod)
I searched for this but surprisingly I did not see any related posts. Is there a way to store environment specific settings (like web service address) that can be swapped out at when the app is built...
View ArticleUINavigationController inside UIView
Hello all !! I'm looking for a solution in order to use UIViewController s stack inside a UIView , so I tryed to use the UINavigationController. I'm adding as subview to my main UIView the...
View ArticleLicensing problems when I work from home???
So I brought my work laptop home (the one I use at work to write our Xamarin apps) and whenever I try to run one of our apps, I get: 1>C:\Program Files...
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