Starting iPad emulator but Device.Idiom returns Phone. What am I doing wrong?
I'm using Visual Studio for Mac and using the Simulator to test the application. I have an existing application that was only supporting phones. Now I want to test it with iPad. In Visual Studio under...
View ArticleiOS : ToolbarItems not displaying on root navigation page
Hello all, I got three toolbaritems in my app which display everywhere on Android. Prob is on iOS it only shows on pages which are pushed in the navigationPage. When I'm on the root page of the...
View ArticleGetting unique device ID
Hi all, Just having a little tinker with xamarin and loving it. I was wondering, what is considered the best way to get a unique device ID which will be consistent across Android + iOS and which return...
View ArticleHow to make the Authentication Managed Server Flow to work in Android
Hi: I follow this article without luck for the Android with Azure AD B2c configuration (easy auth in app service):...
View ArticleHow to set the background Color in the PCL for the UserDialogs.Toast
Hi: I have the following code, but is not accepting the Color saying: Error CS0433 The type 'Color' exists in both 'Mono.Android, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=84e04fs9cfb79065' and...
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Mono.Android reference in Xamarin.Forms is failing
Hi, I've copied the full solution of an application from one machine to the other. Both have VS 2017 Community Edition and one of them is showing the following warning: That results in multiple errors...
View ArticleVertical ScrollView and horizontal ListView scrolling issues
Hello, I have a vertical ScrollView with a horizontal ListView within. The horizontal ListView will not scroll vertically with the rest of the content. All content under the horizontal ListView scrolls...
View ArticleRadiobutton Radiogroup uncheck Problem
I have several Radiogroup with 2 Radiobuttons on my Layout. I want to clear the selection by Code. But every Solution I try do not work. Here is my Sample Code: Layout: <RadioGroup...
View ArticleDebugging issue
How to solve the error "The breakpoint will not currently be hit.No symbols have been loaded for this document"?
View ArticleInvalid Cast Exception with FreshEssentials BindablePicker
@MichaelRidland I have used FreshEssentials BindablePicker in other projects fine, but am having a very strange problem with a particular Page/PageModel. I have stripped the Page and PageModel right...
View ArticleSwitch View not binding properly to Xam.Plugins.Settings object when...
Using the Switch in a plain vanilla mvvm data binding with Prism and PropertyChanged.Fody all works fine and as expected. Then I added James Montemagno's Settings Plugin and tried binding directly to...
View ArticleHow to load static data in local sqlite DB?
Hi, I have requirement to load static data when application starts for the first time. This the data of countries, district and cities. How do I populate this data in sqlite db. The data is huge, it...
View Article.NET Standard 2.0 on Windows 10 Mobile
Hi, I encounter a problem with the UWP version of my app. I developed a mobile cross-platform app using Xamarin.Forms, Android-iOS-Windows10 mobile. I use .NET Standard 2.0 and I see that: Higher...
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ListView with large accessibility font
Is there any way to make a TextCell in a ListView automatically adjust its height when a user has their accessibility font turned all the way up? Right now it just expands the text such that cells draw...
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Blank space after listview items.
Hi all, My listview Bottom portion has some blank space, I tried to remove it by adding Footer and HasUnevenRows, but not get lucky. Screenshot: My code: <ContentPage> <ScrollView>...
View ArticleHide ToolBar in Landscape mode
Hi. I have a MasterPage and i want to hide ToolBar in LandscapeMode, but to be able to interact with MasterDetailPage. I saw this in Google Calendar.
View Articlesaving file to SD-card for public access
How in Xamarin.Android save the file to an external source (SD card)? There is a task to save the file so that the user can then work with this file for review and outside the application. The code...
View ArticleHow to use VS2017 debug Xamarin native app to my LG G3 Android 5.0?
I have connected my LG G3 to my laptop with USB and Windows explorer can show the device. But in VS2017, the list of debug device does not have it. I can only find "LGE LG-D855 Player (Android 5.0 -...
View ArticleBlank or Black Screen Issue in Xamarin.Android is this Memory Leak? if so How...
HI, I made an app(xamarin.Android) where I will be working with large set list views and some background syncing ,so I am implementing IDisposable and doing Garbage Collection to free up memory,what I...
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I keep a black screen when opening my app on emulator
Hello, I am just starting to work with Xamarin to try and create an android/IOS app. I followed a few tutorials and starting making a few "practice" apps using Xamarin and Visual Studio 2015. In the...
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