My Android Studio preview is working fine.
But I made my preview screen to new window. When I wanted to make it inside the Android Studio again, I can't find a way! How can I restore my preview setting as Default? (to be located inside the Android Studio preview tab. Not separated window)
Follow these instructions
1.Select the Preview Window
2.Go to Window menu -> Active Tool Window
Docked Mode in Window menu
This will make preview window in docked mode there will be settings icon you can change it if you want to change it again
I just wanted to know that, is it possible to get the designer view in Xamarin.Forms with Visual Studio 2015. It's very hard to compile code every time to check the simple changes.
Thank You in advance.
If you are using XAML to write the code you can use XAML Previewer for Xamarin.Forms You can see the documentation here:
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/xaml/xaml-previewer/
Few things to keep in mind:
You need to be connected to MAC Agent to make it work (I am not sure
why this is the case even for Android, For me it does not work without connecting to mac agent)
The Previewer works on any ContentPage, ContentView, or ViewCell in
a Xamarin.Forms application
To launch the Previewer in Visual Studio, select View -> Other
Windows -> Xamarin.Forms Previewer
Latest-and-greatest Xamarin.Forms NuGet is recommended; at least
2.3.2 is required
Project should be built (compiled) before attempting to preview XAML
files.
This is a "Preview" release, so it may not always work as expected.
I recently downloaded Xamarin.Forms as Microsoft made it free. I am looking around in Visual Studio for a visual designer, that is usually included in Xamarin.Droid and Xamarin.IOS. Is there no such feature for Xamarin.Forms? Surely I must be missing something ?
Xamarin does not have a designer for Xamarin.Forms at this time, but is working on the Xamarin.Forms Previewer which renders a live preview of a Xamarin.Forms page side-by-side with the XAML markup directly inside the Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio IDEs.
You can open the Xamarin.Forms Previewer by clicking on View -> Other Windows -> Xamarin.Forms Previewer in the Visual Studio menu or alternatively just searching for Xamarin.Forms in the Visual Studio quicklaunch box.
In addition to the official Xamarin.Forms Previewer, there is at least one other third party tool that exists in this space as well:
Gorilla Player by UX Divers is a real time Xamarin.Forms previewer currently in beta that runs in both a simulator and on hardware devices.
Update (2018): There is now also the Xamarin Live Player for Xamarin.Forms that allows you visualize your XAML layouts running live on a physical device as you are developing them.
No, Xamarin Forms does not have a drag and drop design surface. There is a live XAML previewer, but it is still in alpha release.
A Xamarin previewer (while not a designer, it is still VERY handy) is available in the latest version of Visual Studio. To access it go to
View > Other Windows > Xamarin.Forms Previewer.
When you open a XAML page, you can see it in the previewer (make sure your project is built first or you will get an error.)
The preview will update automagically as you edit your XAML, no save is required. When working with lists etc, you will want to create some dummy data to ensure you can see how it will work. There is an example at https://xamarinhelp.com/xamarin-forms-previewer/
There are options to view your Xamarin
Xamarin Form Previewer - you view it on visual studio
Xamarin Live Player - you can view it on the target devices
Gorilla Player - you can view it on target devices with real-time update
However all comes with limitation, if you're using third party controls than it may not be supported.
You can find a "Design" named button under your source code. Click on it and you will be able to use drag and drop from the tool box on the left.
When using Android Designer in Visual Studio I can't toggle between the source and content of my view. From some reason in the same solution in Xamarin Studio I can do that. I have looked all over the place but it is not there, also from memory I was able to do this in this solution a while back.
I had a similar problem to this before which was solved once I renamed all the folders under Resources to lower case letters.
Below is a picture of the window with a missing and another one with the toggle buttons there (in Xamarin Studio).
Cheers,
I'd like to preview how my app page will look with some different screen widths (full screen and several narrow layouts) in Visual Studio XAML designer. At this moment it's laid out as if for the full screen.
Is there a way to preview the page for different widths in Visual Studio?
There is a Device tool window available from the Design menu that has a list of different standard devices as well as orientation and other settings that can affect the display of your app. The same is available in Blend.