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Believe it or not, the Label is one of the most crucial yet underappreciated View classes not only in Xamarin.Forms, but in UI development in general. It is seen as a rather boring line of text, but without that line of text it would be very difficult to convey certain ideas to the user. Label co...

An ImageCell is exactly what it sounds like. It is a simple Cell that contains only an Image. This control functions very similarly to a normal Image control, but with far fewer bells and whistles. XAML <ImageCell ImageSource="http://d2g29cya9iq7ip.cloudfront.net/content/imag es/company...

Getting a table with vertical headers. Twitter bootstrap now support vertical header on a well formatted normal table. To achieve this just use .table-reflow class Use twitter bootstrap .table-reflow class on a well formed table to achieve a table with vertical headers. Additionally you can combin...

External Maps Plugin Open external maps to navigate to a specific geolocation or address. Option to launch with navigation option on iOS as well. Available on NuGet :[https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xam.Plugin.ExternalMaps/][1] XAML <StackLayout Spacing="10" Padding="10"&...

Easly access geolocation across Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android and Windows. Available Nuget: [https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xam.Plugin.Geolocator/][1] XAML <StackLayout Spacing="10" Padding="10"> <Button x:Name="buttonGetGPS" Text="Get GPS"/...

Take or pick photos and videos from a cross platform API. Available Nuget : [https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xam.Plugin.Media/][1] XAML <StackLayout Spacing="10" Padding="10"> <Button x:Name="takePhoto" Text="Take Photo"/> <Butto...

Messaging plugin for Xamarin and Windows to make a phone call, send a sms or send an e-mail using the default messaging applications on the different mobile platforms. Available Nuget : [https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xam.Plugins.Messaging/][1] XAML <StackLayout Spacing="10" Padding...

Installation via NodeJS is the recommended method. It is preferred because you can use it to build the files selecting just the components you want. Step 1: Install Node (Link) Step 2: Install Gulp globally ( -g ) on your computer npm install -g gulp Semantic UI uses Gulp to provide command ...

There are many reasons a write operation may fail. A frequent one is because your security rules reject the operation, for example because you're not authenticated (by default a database can only be accessed by an authenticated user). You can see these security rule violations in the console output...

This document details the steps to obtain the facebook access tokens and the using the tokens to fetch FB feeds. Example: A live example is available in https://newtonjoshua.com Introduction to Graph API: The Graph API is the primary way to get data in and out of Facebook's platform. It's a...

ContentPage: Displays a single View. XAML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml" x:Class="XamlBasics.SampleXaml"> &lt...

MasterDetailPage: Manages two separate Pages (panes) of information. XAML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <MasterDetailPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml" x:Class=&quot...

In Qt you should use QLinkedList in case you need to implement linked list. It is fast to append, prepend, insert elements into QLinkedList - O(1), but index lookup is slower than in QList or QVector - O(n). This is normal taking into attention you have to iterate through nodes to find something in...

It is important to read the error response that is returned by the Google Analytics API server. In a lot of cases they can tell you exactly what is wrong. 400 invalidParameter { "error": { "errors": [ { "domain": "global", "reason&...

[Service] # empty exec prevents error "docker.service has more than one ExecStart= setting, which is only allowed for Type=oneshot services. Refusing." ExecStart= ExecStart=/usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// --log-driver=syslog This enables syslog logging for the docker daemon. The file sho...

There are two classes of methods for solving Linear Equations: Direct Methods: Common characteristics of direct methods are that they transform the original equation into equivalent equations that can be solved more easily, means we get solve directly from an equation. Iterative Method: It...

An equation of the type f(x)=0 is either algebraic or transcendental. These types of equations can be solved by using two types of methods- Direct Method: This method gives the exact value of all the roots directly in a finite number of steps. Indirect or Iterative Method: Iterative method...

Arch: An official pacman-package is available. Install the package as root, using: pacman -S postgis OpenSuse: In order to use the openSuse repositories for geospatial applications, enable the Geo-repository as root: zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/openSUS...

Consider a simple asynchronous method: async Task Foo() { Bar(); await Baz(); Qux(); } Simplifying, we can say that this code actually means the following: Task Foo() { Bar(); Task t = Baz(); var context = SynchronizationContext.Current; t.ContinueWith(task...

To disable synchronization context you should call the ConfigureAwait method: async Task() Foo() { await Task.Run(() => Console.WriteLine("Test")); } . . . Foo().ConfigureAwait(false); ConfigureAwait provides a means to avoid the default SynchronizationContext capturi...