When displaying textual information to your user, you want it to be well displayed with good font size, appropriate style, text color… But you also want the user to edit this information with minimum efforts. You can build a custom control in Xamarin Forms for this purpose. Let’s say you have a page in your…
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Hello friends, notifying users about what happens in your mobile application is necessary. There is the Snack Bar which is good for this scenario. But in Xamarin.Forms by default, you don’t have the ability to call snack bar. Though by default you can’t do this, it is possible to make a Snack Bar in Xamarin…
5 Reasons Why The Xamarin.Forms Shell Will Increase Your Productivity.
Hello friends, Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Preview was made available for some time already, and it has several features which I’m excited about. These features where announced months ago, but the one which caught my attention was the Xamarin.Forms Shell. This feature is not yet available on the UWP platform as I’m writing this blog post today….
How To Resolve Microsoft.Net.Native.Runtime .2.1-rel not found
Hello everyone. Today I decided to make a small post about a problem which has annoyed me seriously last weekend, and how to resolve it. I make this post for those who may have encountered this issue and don’t know how to resolve it. I also go a little bit into the details of how…
How To Get A Device Owner’s Current User Name With Xamarin Forms
Hi everyone, what’s up ?. I’m sure if you are reading this post, you may be looking for a means to have the name of your users on your app. Without having to ask them for it. If that is the case, you are at the right place. This is something tricky to accomplish, but…
10 Common Challenges Faced by Xamarin.Forms Beginners and Possible Solutions
Hello Friends, I remember when I first heard about Xamarin.Forms. As a .Net developer, discovering a tool which will let you leverage your .Net skills to build cross platform applictions. I literally had water in my mouth 🤤. As an excited beginner, I went directly to Google and learned everything I could about Xamarin.Forms. Then Bam…
How to Build a Native Xamarin.Forms Custom Modal Popup
Hello, friends. You might have noticed that when building Xamarin.Forms applications, you can only call extremely simple modal, popups, or dialog (these words will be used interchangeably). These popups are used only for very simple scenarios such as displaying information or allowing users to select a set of predefined options only. Where the need of…
Xamarin.Forms ListView Advanced Guide With MVVM
Hello Friends, If you have been building Xamarin.Forms applications, you surely have noticed that the ListView is one of the controls you will use most often. The ListView has several functionalities and serves primarily in displaying a list of data. Taking this into consideration, you will notice that data displayed on list views need to provide…
Resolve Image Loading Error in Xamarin Forms
Resolve image loading error in Xamarin Forms Hello everyone, I had an issue in my Xamarin.Forms project a while ago. The Issue was I could not load images from URLs into my Xamarin.Forms application. I was quite annoying, since on UWP, it loaded seamlessly. I tried using this cool plugin to load images in a better way,…