I was having the same issue with several Dependency Services The simplest solution In a lot of cases for Single Activity Applications Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Context Can be replaced with Android.App.Application.Context The Background in more detail Android.App.Application.Context returns the global Application Context of the current process tied to the lifecycle of the Application, as apposed to an Activity … Read more
I believe you would be better off writing a little bit of platform-specific code: For Android: On your MainActivity.cs on the Droid project, right after LoadApplication(new App()); of the overriden OnCreate method, add: Window.SetStatusBarColor(Android.Graphics.Color.Argb(255, 0, 0, 0)); Like so: protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle) { TabLayoutResource = Resource.Layout.Tabbar; ToolbarResource = Resource.Layout.Toolbar; base.OnCreate(bundle); global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(this, bundle); LoadApplication(new … Read more
In Xamarin.Forms 1.3 and greater you can use NavigationPage.SetHasBackButton(this, false); In Xaml you can add: <ContentPage ….NameSpaces etc…. NavigationPage.HasBackButton=”False” Title=”MyPage”> </ContentPage>
The best I can do is to layout the facts as they currently stand. NOTE: A lot has changed since I first answered this in 2017. The information below has continued to be updated and should help you as you look to make decisions on your projects. Do take note however that you do also … Read more
With the new BindableLayout feature in Xamarin Forms 3.5 you can easily use the ItemsSource on StackPanel. So, basically you can write something like this: <StackLayout BindableLayout.ItemsSource=”{Binding list}”> <BindableLayout.ItemTemplate> <DataTemplate> … </DataTemplate> </BindableLayout.ItemTemplate> </StackLayout> You can read more about it here: https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-forms-3-5-a-little-bindable-love/
To restrict the Entry to only accept numbers you could use a Behavior or a Trigger. Both of those will react to a user typing into them. So for your use, you could have the trigger or behavior look for any characters that are not numbers and remove them. Something like this for a behavior … Read more