Disabling XAML Hot Reload
How to disable the XAML Hot Reload feature in Xamarin for Visual Studio under UI Debugging Tools for XAML. - read more.
20 Jan 2020 - 3 CommentsXamarin Forms Carousel View
Xamarin Forms has become for me, a great tool for easily creative mobile applications with speed. But where it has many great features, it also unfortunately still has a lot of bugs and incomplete or experimental features. CarouselView is one of them, so lets look at possible uses for the CarouselView, its upsides and its downfalls. We'll also look into possible alternatives and whether you should use them or not. - read more.
29 Jul 2019Fixed: Unhandled Exception: Java.Lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.support.v7.widget.ContentFrameLayout.setId(int)' on a null object reference occurred
Looking into the solution for the Xamarin bug where developers are presented with the 'Unhandled Exception: Java.Lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.support.v7.widget.ContentFrameLayout.setId(int)' on a null object reference occurred' message when deploying an app to their device. - read more.
11 Mar 2019Solved: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity
One of those types of annoying errors that'll have you do a lot of work for something that's actually a 2 second job and no real effort. - read more.
20 Dec 2017 - 1 CommentsXamarin Forms app not updating after deploy
Xamarin Forms has an intermittent bug where an app will build and successfully deploy, but when checking the app of the device/emulator, the app hasn't updated at all and remains running an old version of the app. The solution to this lies within the bin folder of your project. - read more.
25 Jul 2017 - 1 CommentsXamarin Forms multiple instances of same app open
Fixing an issue where multiple instances of a Xamarin Forms app can launch, sometimes on top of each other. The issue is usually caused when the application is already running and the app gets launched again from the home screen rather than the recent applications menu. - read more.
22 Jul 2017 - 6 CommentsVisual Studio 2017 - Black text on XAML and XML files
I've just upgraded Visual Studio and I'm getting this problem, most answers seem to be 'run the installer again and choose repair'. This didn't work for me. Here's what did. - read more.
12 May 2017Xamarin forms - Stop/Cancel back button event
We've all been there, set with the task to ask the user if they're sure they really want to go go back and loose the work/information on the current screen. The trouble is that if you were to Google search for just that, you'd find almost every answer says you need some sort of custom handler for each device. We can't accept that can we? Will we? No. - read more.
8 Mar 2017 - 8 CommentsFirebaseInstanceId: background sync failed: INVALID_PARAMETERS
Another annoying but simple to fix issue with installing Firebase Cloud Messaging on a Xamarin Forms project and getting it running. - read more.
22 Feb 2017System.TypeLoadException: Could not resolve type with token 0100017e
Why does the System.TypeLoadException: Could not resolve type with token 0100017e error happen and how to fix it. - read more.
24 Jan 2017