I'm using the lastest version of Xamarin Forms and I'm working inside the PCL. The targeted platform is currently Android.
I would like to create a Master Detail Page on the right side of the screen. I've seen this thread where someone says to create a renderer to achieve this functionality.
Could you give me more details about how to do that?
By the way, I've also tried to use the plugin SlideOverKit, but it does not work in my project.
Thanks.
Try something like this :
Refer here for this sample and article.
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I'm trying to follow this tutorial on creating a login page using Auth0: https://auth0.com/docs/quickstart/native/xamarin/01-login#handing-the-callback-url and noticed that the tutorial creates two separate login pages for android and iOS, as if they are two separate apps/projects/solutions. But my app is supposed to be compatible with both android and iOS, so I created a forms page under RoseySports.ios called Login_iOS (As indicated in screenshot 1) and would like to test it out to see if the login page works, but cannot seem to find a way to set the MainPage as Login_iOS (screenshot 2). I would like for it to be so that if a device is running iOS, it will redirect the user to the iOS version of the login page, and vice versa for android. Sorry if I'm not using the correct terminology when describing my issue. The reason I had to create two separate login pages for iOS and android was because i had to use using Auth0.OidcClient; as there are separate Nuget packages for the iOS solution and Android solution, which doesn't work when trying to put it on the main project (the one compatible for both iOS and Android).
And please let me know if there's a way to make just one login page for both platforms using Auth0.
UPDATE:
This is what I've done now, but I'm getting an error at MainPage = new RoseySports.Login_iOS(); saying that Login.iOS does not exist in the namespace RoseySports. This is the rest of the code:
`switch(Device.RuntimePlatform)
{
case Device.iOS:
MainPage = new RoseySports.Login_iOS();
break;
case Device.Android:
MainPage = new Login_Page();
break;
}`
You have multiple questions and in StackOverflow you should not ask them in one question, but let's try to address them:
Pages are only graphic elements and there is no need to implement separate graphic elements in iOS and Android in most cases, and yours doesn't look like a valid one for that
In general you can implement some code as platform specific. If you are using shared projects you can use conditional compiling, if not then dependency injection
You can use some of the technics above to do what you wanted to do (have different versions of pages per platform)
We've begun evaluating Xamarin for a up and coming project involving both iOS and Android, with the overriding intention to produce a single UI layer (and some share code, obviously) (I'm also new to C#)
TL;DR
I've begun exploring Xamarin on iOS. I started with the Phoneword example and it worked well enough.
The first issue I found was running the code on the iPhone X, which I was able to solve by using MainPage.On<Xamarin.Forms.PlatformConfiguration.iOS>().SetUseSafeArea(true); in the platform App class
While testing this, I noticed some issues with the ListView not scrolling properly (the core issue was actually with the platform padding).
I then used (MainPage as Xamarin.Forms.NavigationPage).On<iOS>().EnableTranslucentNavigationBar(); to enable translucent navigation bars (as we're targeting iOS 11+) and now everything appears under the navigation bar.
This is easily fixed in xCode and after some research I've found that I need to be using UIKit.UIViewController.EdgesForExtendedLayout Property, the immediate problem I'm facing is, the only "snippets" of code I can find are from the View is displayed under status bar in iOS 7 and EdgesForExtendedLayout doesn't help forum post.
Issue at hand...
The example solution snippets posted seem to be making use of a platform (iOS) specific solution. The problem is, I want to keep using the "cross-platform" code in the "platform" project and simply provide some custom configuration for the iOS platform which can apply these states.
I understand it could be possible to use a renderer, but this seems to counter-interactive, as I'd need one for both iOS and Android, where the platform page is doing just fine as it.
I understand that I could setup a DependencyService, but this seems annoying to have to include a specific "configuration" service just to solve this issue for iOS
I was hoping it might be possible to setup a iOS Page which would "override" some of the functionality of the platform page and would allow me to make use of things like viewDidLoad so I can apply the iOS specific configurations on a page by pages bases, so we could keep the platform page as it, but when running under iOS, it would provide me access to iOS life cycle of the actual view...
I've been trying to search the documentation and tutorials and haven't yet come across anything which would seem to do this or something similar (not to say there isn't one, but I'm just not finding it).
How to show pop up in Xamarin Forms, without using third party plugins such as Rg plugin or x-labs plugin?
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There is an official guide on the Xamarin site to get simpel popups:
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/application-fundamentals/navigation/pop-ups/
I suggest reading it all, you can also make your own popups like rg.plugins by checking out their code and writing it yourself
Say I build a super mobile friendly web application that I want in the Play Store for Android users to be able to download.
Could I use Xamarin to:
Wrap the entire mobile app as a single WebView
Register for mobile push notifications
Essentially shortlining an MVP of an android app by using an existing web app? If so, is there any well-known process or documentation that demonstrates this?
Probably the best approach for you would be using Xamarin Forms with one or more pages containing only web views.
I don't love Xamarin Forms because usually for me Xamarin Android+iOS gives a better result in similar time, but your app would be so simple that doesn't make sense to do it with Xamarin Android.
Make sure that your web app will show only what makes sense to be shown in your app, otherwise you risk to see double header/footer, useless buttons... but if the website is yours adding a few parameters to change a bit the UI won't be a problem I guess.
Have a look at this example:
https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-samples/tree/master/WorkingWithWebview
Another approach is the use of Razor to build your pages in html directly inside your app, but if I understood well it's not what you need:
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/advanced/razor_html_templates/
Although it is technically possible to do this as the previous answer has suggested. I would recommended firstly reviewing, the relevant stores guidelines on submissions. Apple for example will not allow a submission to their store of any application that simply mirrors the functionality of a website. I suspect Google's would likely be the same.
However that said, to answer your question, Xamarin.Forms would be appropriate for a simple application like the one you are suggesting. Or if you prefer to build to a specific OS, then in iOS with Xamarin you would use the Safari View Controller that was added in it's xcode 8.1 release. Android uses something similar as does windows.
EDIT:
You can use the Web View control in Xamarins Andorid native PCL project to encapsulate your mobile friendly website within an application here is the documentation:
Xamarin Android Developer link to Android Web View
As for push notifications, yes this is perfectly possible using Xamarin.Android. and varies on implementation depending on what you want to use as the back end to handle them, I.E. Azure's notification hub etc.
I tried coule of plug-in for image carousel for Xamarin.Forms, but they are pretty old and not working fine. Trying the carousel view from Xamarin it's pretty slow and I guess has a limitation on the number of images I can add.
Anybody know how to implement a great carousel for a list of images in Xamarin.Forms ?
Thanks !!
The CarouselView is the way to go. See the link for a tutorial on how to use it.
It has been removed from 2.2.0 due to stability issues and will be temporarily placed in a separate Nuget package of most likely this link: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.Forms.CarouselView/ within a few days.
Once it is stable it will be moved back into the main nuget package.