Is there a way to create a percentage-based, truly responsive layout with the...
I've been looking online for hours now for a solution and I cannot find one. Every single one of them tells me to use the interface builder in Xcode. I do not want to do this. Scenario: I drop a table...
View ArticleAutomatic Provisioning with Visual Studio 2017
Hey all, We've finally brought automatic iOS provisioning to Visual Studio 2017. It's available in Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 3. I've made a blog post about it, which you can read here....
View ArticleHow populate a Spinner with Key/Value
Hi guys i wondering if anyody have a example or an idea about populate a spinner like combobox in VB.net/C#.net
View ArticleUnable to cast object of type 'Xamarin.Forms.ContentPage' to type...
Ok, I must be missing something. I am running into an odd issue below when I add a BindingContext and Set the IsBusy property at the Tabbed Page Level in one of my Xaml Files <TabbedPage...
View ArticleHow to resolve ArgumentException: Failed to parse PList data type
After updating Visual Studio to 15.6 today on my Windows PC, and updating Visual Studio and XCode on the Mac, I am getting the following when trying to build my app for iOS. Does anybody know how to...
View ArticleListView desperately needs a SelectedItemBackgroundColor property
It's a very basic thing, nobody wants an ugly grey (or blue) bar to appear as the background when you select an item in a ListView. It looks terrible from a UI point of view. Everybody has been...
View ArticleCannot find a suitable solution for using System.IO.Ports
I found a few topics in this forum about this subject. I just cannot find one that help to overcome this little hurdle, which has kept me googling for days.... I am using Visual Studio 2017 Community...
View ArticleCommunicating with Web API on localhost from Android Emulator
I'm developing a Xamarin Forms App that communicates with a Web API. I am currently able to debug and test this communication using Visual Studio for Xamarin Forms and an Android Emulator communicating...
View ArticleBest Development setup for Debugging/Testing Xamarin Forms app on iOS
Hi all, I'm really struggling with how to 'quickly' debug and test my Xamarin Form app for iOS. I am developing in VS2017 on a Win 10 PC, which is paired to my Mini Mac with Xcode. So I can develop and...
View Article"apksigner.BAT" exited with code 45940943
Been getting this error randomly when deploying my Xamarin Forms Android app. Sometimes a clean/rebuild fixes it, sometimes I have to delete my bin and obj folders. Happens with Xamarin.Forms...
View ArticleMaking a zoomed-LCD version of a bitmap
Hi there! I need to make a tool that can accept a png image and make a zoomed-LCD version for display in a winforms picturebox and saving as a new png. Detailed description: My proposed steps are:...
View ArticleCan't build Xamarin.Form with a newly created project on Visual Studio Mac
I tried different creation method, but I can't compile an android or iOs newly created project with Visual Studio Mac. Latest OS X Latest VS Mac (7.4.3 (build 10)) I always get the error (more log...
View ArticleWhy won't my Xamarin Forms UWP app change pages until I wiggle my mouse?
Strangest thing I've ever seen. I click the button to change pages in my UWP app, and it just hangs until I move the mouse or tap the screen. Has anyone seen this before?
View ArticleXamarin.iOS build Error: Could not link assemblies
Hi, I cant' build my project on iPhoneSimulator because of below error. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Xamarin\iOS\Xamarin.iOS.Common.targets(777,3): error : Could not link assemblies. Reason: Object...
View ArticleHow to connect to Tor and get html of onion-site with Xamarin?
Is it possible to send a GET request to Tor (to an .onion resource) from a mobile application with Xamarin? If I understand correctly, then to send a request to the .onion site, the program must...
View ArticleWhy does my App Icon not show up?
Hello guys, I just want to know if anyone else ran into this issue. On Xamarin.IOS i am trying to deploy an App to the app store, but whatever i do, the AppIcon does not get deployed, neither in Debug,...
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ios App icon problem
Hi, so i'm developing an ios app using xamarin windows and i almost finish it. i wanted to add an icon to the app so i followed this link :...
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Help with this type of layout
Hi I'm new to Xamarin Forms and currently I'm trying to implement this type of layout on my Xamarin.Forms App. Which layout do I need to use to achieve this exact type of functionality (I mean the...
View ArticleCanDevelop app for Cinema Booking System?
Hi, I want to develop app for Cinema Booking System in XAMARIN form. i don't know how is a stable for develop a large scale application. Can anyone suggest me? Should i use a Xamarin form or native?...
View ArticleHow to defer loading of ListView items?
I have a ListView. Each item contains a somewhat complex set of child objects. This causes the page navigation to load the page containing the ListView to take several seconds, making the app poorly...
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