With .NET 5 Microsoft begins the journey of unifying the .NET platform, bringing .NET Core and Mono/Xamarin together in one base class library (BCL) and toolchain (SDK), more about it here. .NET MAUI is a name for a new upgraded solution as a Multi-platform App UI framework for building native cross-platform apps with .NET for … Read more
A ContentPage is a Page that is intended to fill the display. A ContentView is a View that can be contained within a Page or within another View. Both have a Content property that contains child content – either a single View, or more commonly a Layout containing multiple Views.
There’s no Border property for GridView, but: Just set grid.BackgroundColor to your desired border color value, then set grid.ColumnSpacing and grid.RowSpacing to some value and make sure all controls you add to the grid have own BackgroundColor set correctly.
Apparently, this is a known issue: Xamarin Forms needs the TargetAndroidVersion to be 21. (In the config GUI, this is entitled “Compile using Android version:”)
The best I can do is to layout the facts as they currently stand. NOTE: A lot has changed since I first answered this in 2017. The information below has continued to be updated and should help you as you look to make decisions on your projects. Do take note however that you do also … Read more
Xamarin.Forms does not come with a graphical designer (yet ?). As for intellisense there are 2 parts: referencing xaml element tagged with x:Name in code behind works in both Xamarin.Studio and VisualStudio Xaml completion of elements and attributes works in Xamarin.Studio, and support for completing attributes values is coming very soon. Unfortunately, intellisense for Xaml … Read more
With the new BindableLayout feature in Xamarin Forms 3.5 you can easily use the ItemsSource on StackPanel. So, basically you can write something like this: <StackLayout BindableLayout.ItemsSource=”{Binding list}”> <BindableLayout.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> … </DataTemplate> </BindableLayout.ItemTemplate> </StackLayout> You can read more about it here: https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-3-5-a-little-bindable-love/
There isn’t a ‘Xamarin.Forms’ way of doing it that I know of. You need to hook into Android and iOS, what you could do is create one method that handles them both in the same way. A nice post about this is by Peter Norman. He describes that to implement it in Android you can … Read more
when you have declare the push notification using xamarin then you have to write code on both section like xamarin android and IOS, and also if you have used to remote notification then use to push sharp lib which is a best for push notification and register your app and enable to notification service like … Read more
You can add a TapGestureRecognizer to the StackLayout in XAML like this: <StackLayout Grid.Column=”0″ Grid.Row=”0″ BackgroundColor=”#313FA0″> <StackLayout.GestureRecognizers> <TapGestureRecognizer Tapped=”OnTapped”/> </StackLayout.GestureRecognizers> </StackLayout> Then you can implement the OnTapped method in the code behind: void OnTapped(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Do stuff } Alternatively, if you are using the MVVM pattern and would like to Bind … Read more