I want to know where I can get access to the NinePatch images specifically for Monodroid. I want to change the default coloring from blue to orange (if I was doing this in Java it would already be orange).
All I need is to change an edittext so that it's default colors are different. I have seen
http://www.androidworks.com/changing-the-android-edittext-ui-widget
which is really helpful but only as far as vanilla Android is concerned. I tried following the instructions, but I found the standard orange java images, not the Mono ones, which are blue.
Minimum framework is 2.2. I know that I am getting the java images because when I go to C:\Android\android-sdk\platforms there is no android-2.2 folder.
I'm not really sure what you are referring to. Mono for Android does not ship any NinePatch images. Mono for Android simply provides a thin binding over the Java API, it does not do anything custom.
Maybe it is triggered by changing your Android target framework?
I found my answer - and thank goodnesss it did not involve changing the 9Patches!
You can make an xml in the drawable folder which describes your button, textbox, etc. and make a selector with a solid tag, pressed event, etc. (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/drawable-resource.html)
Then you can set up the colors as a constant set in the Values folder and boom! Solution!
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How can I customize the appearence of xamarin.forms components?
I want each button to have the same image, for instance. Or for all systems to share the same login screen with the same background image.
I know I can do that by adding one specific screen to each platform project. But I want to be able to customize the component itself. Example: All buttons will have the same background image no matter which platform is running.
I've read these:
http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/custom-renderer/
http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/working-with/styles/
http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-xamarinforms-customizing-user-interface--cms-22144
The most promising one seems to be the last one. Is a custom renderer the only way to accomplish this? Can't I just add an image at the shared project and it automagicaly works for all platforms?
Thanks.
It's not absolutely clear, what exactly you want to reach... but I try to answer you.
If you use a shared project (based on template "Blank App (Xamarin.Forms shared)", you can use the same page / page-definition in all of your platforms.
You can add - e.g. a login-form in the shared-folder and then call it from code (e.g. from another page in the shared folder).
If you want to create your own controls, you can create "user-controls" and use it everywhere you want (what I recommend to every user).
You do this, by create a own class (e.g. with an Entry and a Label), implement the events and then instantiate it where you want to use it. E.G.
var OeFirma = new EntryErfassung(cDefaultText: "Firma", iMaximalLaenge: 45);
where OeFirma is the name of the object-instance on the page (to access it), EntryErfassung is my own class (that contains a description-label, an Entry an error-label and more) and cDefaultText is a parameter, that overtakes and set the default-text to the Entry and iMaximalaenge is a further parameter that is overtaken whereby my class then take care, that not more then 45 Characters are accepted for this Entry).
I have e.g. created a class with a description-label, a delete-button, an Entry and a error-label ad use it on all data-entry-forms.
If you want to change the look-and-feel of a specific control for a specific platform, you can create a "custom-render" (I have done this e.g. to change the font-size to the edit specific for iOS, as the font-sinze cannot be set in the XF-Entry control).
Hope this answers your question...
To do this, you can just specific a style in the App class, (you will need to change the app class to be made up of 2 partials: App.xaml & App.xaml.cs, and then create a ResourceDictionary to hold your customisations.
<Style TargetType="Button">
<Setter Property="Image" Value="MyImage.png"/>
</Style>
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Tristan
I am trying to create a Xamarin.Android Component to send to the Xamarin Component Store, and I need to bundle my Colors.xml with it, so it is accessible to everyone using my component. I am setting the build action for the Colors.xml tp "AndroidResource".
So I created an Android sample application, when I add a reference to my library project's dll, I am able to use the colors defined, my project compiles and it runs, but I get no intellisense on Xamarin Studio. So that would be a bad thing for anyone using my library, as they would not be able to even see that the colors are available to use. You can see in this picture the colors defined are not available in the suggestions box.
If I add the Colors.xml directly into my project, I get Intellisense support, like this:
Is there a way to achieve the same result above when adding just the dll reference? Did I do something wrong or Xamarin.Android/Xamarin Studio doesn't support this kind of scenario?
EDIT: To be clear, I know this is a problem with Intellisense not being able to pick up the values, but is there anything I can do to make it work?
I'd like to use qualifiers on my layout folders as per the android documentation, but the designer in VS doesn't seem to support them. For example layout-w600dp doesn't get sent to the emulator; the default axml file from the layout folder is used.
Does anyone know if these settings are supported in Monodroid? If so, how do you make them take effect?
I think w600dp requires a certain api level to work - maybe 3.2 - see http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/new-tools-for-managing-screen-sizes.html
I have a Page in a Windows Phone class library. This page has an appbar. I would prefer everything this page needs to be included within the class library so the setup list for consumers of this page / assembly is minimal.
However, When I set ApplicationBar icons, they get added to the class library project under the folder 'icons' just like normal, they show up fine in Blend, but at runtime they are no where to be found!
When I put the icons in the Windows Phone Application project all is well. However this is not my desired scenario as it is additional configuration / setup by the application author to use my pages.
I tried using the resource pathing using /{AssemblyName};component/icons/{IconName} but of course the AppBar needs them to be of type "Content" not "Resource". So I am thinking this is impossible but I wanted to know if anybody out there figured out how to do this.
Sorry guys. I just figured it out. I changed the newly added icons from "Resource" to "Content" but I forgot to set "Copy if newer" so they weren't getting outputted to the Bin\Debug\icons folder of the windows Phone Application. something to keep an eye on I guess.
I have been trying to use some custom fonts within my WP7 app.
I followed the example as per http://www.jeffblankenburg.com/2010/10/24/31-days-of-windows-phone-day-24-embedding-fonts/ but in my project it simply will not pick up the custom font.
I have downloaded the sample project in this example and this one does work okay.
So, I have now used the same font used in there, and included in my project. I have ensured that the properties on the file are identical (Build Action = 'Content' and Copy To Output Directory = "Always")
I have used in my XAML in exactly the same way i.e.
FontFamily="Fonts/DigitalDream.ttf#Digital Dream" FontSize="24"
But to no avail. The custom font is just ignored. Is there something that I am missing, or a setting .. anything that would allow this to work in one project, but not another?
I have discovered that it will work if my XAML page is defined at the root level, i.e. immediately under the project, but in my case I have it in a 'Views' folder.
My understanding was that
FontFamily="/Fonts/DigitalDream.ttf#Digital Dream" FontSize="24"
should start at the root folder of the project?
thanks
Custom fonts can be a little tricky. I spent several hours once trying to embed an .otf font only to find that it just didn't seem to be doable.
You're on the right track, though. A .ttf font should be embedable. It's hard to get the right combination of paths and filenames to make the font work, though.
The easiest way I've found to handle some of these more difficult "magic string" type of situations in XAML is to let Expression Blend do the heavy lifting.
Here's a blog post about using Blend to embed fonts. The nice thing about using Blend is that it gives you some visual indications that things are set up correctly--i.e. you can see the font you want in the font selection menu. This is what finally clued me in on the .otf issue. I couldn't see the font in Blend.
And here's an example of a custom font that I've used in one of my apps:
<TextBlock Name="MyTextblock"
FontFamily="/MyAppName;component/fonts/Fonts.zip#Segoe UI Mono">
That's FontFamily URI is a pain to get right. I'm pretty sure that's your problem.
I was actually having the same problem. I followed everything to the dot and still I wasn't able to embed one particular font. So I created a new project and tried embedding the font there. Still no luck. I then tried embedding some other font. And lo and behold, as soon as I typed the FontFamily attribute, I could see that it had embedded. This was particularly odd since I didn't have to change any properties of the font.
I opened the project in Blend and clicked on the font property box to the right. It took a few seconds and then it embedded the font I was having problems with in the first place.