When you build your iOS project, you should have the .app file in the bin/iPhone/Release directory. Or, if you have the .ipa file, you can extract the .app from that with. You can rename the file to have .zip and extract. The .app will be in the Payload folder. On Windows, it can be a … Read more
There is at least one sample published showing the use of Storyboards – the rather oddly named eh – https://github.com/slodge/eh This sample worked by: letting the Storyboard control the navigation using MvxViewController as a VC base class (in place of UIViewController) manually setting the ViewModel in one case – by setting it directly before calling … Read more
If you are using Xamarin.Forms create a Dependency Service. Interface public interface ICloseApplication { void closeApplication(); } Android : Using FinishAffinity() won’t restart your activity. It will simply close the application. public class CloseApplication : ICloseApplication { public void closeApplication() { var activity = (Activity)Forms.Context; activity.FinishAffinity(); } } IOS : As already suggested above. public … Read more
Guys from Xamarin Support already post an answer to this http://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/63675/activation-error/p1 In general you should Update to the “Cycle 6 – Service Release 3” versions or newer. The minimum version of Xamarin Studio that supports MSDN licenses is here: http://download.xamarin.com/studio/Mac/XamarinStudio-5.10.3.51-0.dmg Log out and log back into your Xamarin account following the “Quick manual refresh steps” … Read more
The error message tells you pretty explicitly what the error is C:\Users\dev\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Android.Support.v4\21.0.3\android_m2repository_r10.zip is not a valid zip file How to fix it Please download https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/android_m2repository_r10.zip and extract it to the C:\Users\dev\AppData\Local\Xamarin\Android.Support.v4\21.0.3\content directory.
You can do it cross platform way by attaching the below behavior, as long as it is Xamarin.Forms.Button or a sub-type of it. using System; using System.Threading; using System.Windows.Input; using Xamarin.Forms; namespace App.Controls.Behaviors { public class LongPressBehavior : Behavior<Button> { private readonly object _syncObject = new object(); private const int Duration = 1000; //timer to … Read more
Android: public void OpenPdf(string filePath) { Android.Net.Uri uri = Android.Net.Uri.Parse(“file:///” + filePath); Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ActionView); intent.SetDataAndType(uri, “application/pdf”); intent.SetFlags(ActivityFlags.ClearWhenTaskReset | ActivityFlags.NewTask); try { Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Context.StartActivity(intent); } catch (Exception) { Toast.MakeText(Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Context, “No Application Available to View PDF”, ToastLength.Short).Show(); } } iOS, a bit more complex and requiries some extra classes: public void OpenPDF(string filePath) { FileInfo … Read more
Depending on the version of Android you are using even with the permissions added in the manifest in 6.0 or up the user has to explicitly enable the permission when the app runs and on lower versions permission is asked during install. For example, on startup of the app I created a method to check … Read more
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
UPDATE (10/24/17): While this way of doing things was okay a few years ago, I now strongly advocate for using native UI for doing authentication, as opposed to the webview method shown here. Auth0 is a great way to accomplish native UI login for your apps, using a wide variety of identity providers: https://auth0.com/docs/quickstart/native/xamarin EDIT: … Read more