One of the minor issues we encountered when developing Falafel 2 Go was that on iOS, the ListView defaults the background color of the ViewCell to white. I’m not sure if this is an oversight, intentionally by design, or if it will be changed in the future, but we needed a way to make it […]
Month: October 2014
We previously looked at how to create User Controls with Xamarin Forms to display an Image Button for the different activities in our Falafel 2 Go application. Now that we have these reusable buttons, we need to make them tab-enabled so that they can launch the appropriate activity. As we’ll see in today’s post, this […]
In the previous post on making fancy layouts with Xamarin Forms we saw how you can design a Dashboard style application that stretches to fill any device size. However one of the challenges of the particular design we chose for Falafel 2 Go was the need to support the concept of an Image Button, where […]
We’ve already seen how Xamarin Forms makes it easy to create cross-platform applications that share common layout and behavior. While the included controls like ListView encapsulate a lot of useful behavior, they don’t make for the fanciest layouts. In early versions of Falafel 2 Go we had a simple ListView control as the main page, […]