Xamarin.Android and VB.Net Libaries
Though it is far from my choice, I'm forced to work with some libraries that were written in VB.Net. One of these libraries has some DTOs I'm looking to reuse in a Xamarin.Android project I'm working...
View ArticleHow to install the emulator in Xamarin studio?
I loaded into studio an example of Hello, world. In the course of compilation there is an Android Virtual Device Manager window. I established AVD for Nexus_S. However the program all the same isn't...
View ArticleFacebook.Monotouch Sample?
Anyone have an example on how to use the Facebook.Monotouch wrapper for android? Can't find any documentation on it! I need to be able to log the user into Facebook and retrieve the users information...
View ArticleUIAlertViewDelegate crashes
Hello, I'm quite new to Xamarin.iOS and I'm trying to display an UIAlertView with 3 buttons and write something in the debugger when one of these three buttons is clicked. I did that : public partial...
View ArticleUse custom ViewControllers in my interface
Sorry for asking such a noob question but I can't figure this out. I have started to build an interface using XCode's IB with it's integration with Xamarin Studio. But so far everything has been put...
View ArticleHow to create custom calendar ?
Hi i want to create a custom calendar which connect to my db and represent event from database. also this calendar use a specific culture and dateTime which i must to override default bahviour. can i...
View ArticleCan't build iOS project for device
I am making a project, which uses MvvmCross. It builds fine for the iPhoneSimulator. However, it does not build for the device. My setup is running latest alphas Xamarin.iOS 1.3.246 in VS2012. On the...
View ArticleApplication windows are expected to have a root view controller at the end of...
Not your typical problem relating to this error message. I understand usually that means that the RootViewController on the window isn't set but in my case that isn't the problem. I made a...
View ArticleResource.ID does not contain buttons I placed in axml file.
below is my axml layout code <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> In .cs file, I'm not getting buttons & radio button control's id to fetch it from it's view. When I try to use...
View ArticleFlyout-in menu/sliding menu
Hello I've been looking into how to make such menu is the topic describes and found this http://blog.neteril.org/blog/2013/04/19/fly-out-menu-xamarin-android/ Now as you can see on the pictures the...
View ArticlePOST Requests
I have to make a simple POST request to a web server...non of the example help neither does the recipies... It is such a simple thing but its driving me nuts. If anyone has a quick answer that would be...
View ArticleListview calling all item clicks twice when the first item is clicked.
Hi, I'm using a listview for the user to mark several items before clicking ok, and each time an item is marked I want to save the position of that item. I've been trying doing this by having a bool[]...
View ArticleCross Platform Metrics
I recently used Xamarin to create and publish Android and iOS versions of a chess based game (ChessFlash KnightVision) and thought that I would share my metrics for code reuse across the platforms....
View ArticleXamarin's Disappointing Business Model
Hi, I am a member of 3 development teams, all of which will never use Xamarin. The first one is my full time job at a medium sized development company. We have 5 developers, so to target iOS, Android,...
View Article"Unsupported hash algorithm" when doing an HttpWebRequest to a https:// URL.
I get the following exception when I try to use System.Net.HttpWebRequest to access a https:// URL from an app running in the Android emulator. It tells me to report the problem to the Mono team, so I...
View ArticleMonogame alongside Native controls
Hi Guys, I am looking for a way to have my monogame game exist alongside native controls to handle my GUI. I am looking for a way to either swap between game and native side or a way to embed my...
View ArticlePCL for iOS and Android: runtime version confusion
The attached solution has a simple PCL setup that exhibits some confusing behaviour. There is a common PCL library (targeting .NET 4.5 + W8 = Profile7) containing a single simple class MyPortableClass...
View ArticleUsing System.Linq.Expressions in a PCL method causes TypeLoadExpression...
Given the following method code in a Profile78 Portable Class Library: public static void Calculate() { var constantExpression = System.Linq.Expressions.Expression.Constant(5); } When I call the method...
View ArticleLocalization Settings app resources
Hi, I've succeeded in adding entries to the Settings app for my using the approach defined here: http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/1407/custom-settings-in-ios-settings-app This works well. I am now...
View ArticleMemory management for events and event handlers
Hi Everyone, I have searched and read up on this topic and I gather that when you assign event handlers, you must release these. So if you have something like : MyViewController.SomeEvent +=...
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