I do want this control in sometime for my project. For ex, I want it to be displayed when my app in snap mode.
You can use semantic zoom for that purpose.
Guidelines for Semantic Zoom
XAML GridView grouping and SemanticZoom sample
I implemented jumplist using semantic zoom. Might blog about it if anyone's interested.
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I'm looking from a couple of hours now about "How to design my app around my camera view"
So, I searched about how to use the camera and the Xamarin XLabs and the MediaPlugin are the ones that shows up the more.
However, when I'm looking at them, also when I'm looking at Moments, I can't find the way or understand how can we use the camera as an XAML component, to be able to design on the live view of the camera?
I'm not coding with an MVVM logic but with a MVC logic, so maybe that why I don't get it, I don't know.
You can create a view renderer for your camera, so you just have to add the view in your XAML, and you can add the design you want in your same XAML.
Take a look on this:
https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/application-fundamentals/custom-renderer/view/
I need to make a picker like this in the picture below:
What you see is a TimePicker and I took it just to give you an example. I would like to have one with about 200 numbers on the left and 100 on the right (for example). How can I do it in a Xamarin.Forms PCL project?
The first problem you'll face is that the picker control you see here is a native iOS control. The Xamarin.Forms TimePicker is basically not a physical control in itself but it translates to a native control on each platform. That's why it will look different on Android and UWP devices because they provide their own picker controls, as seen in the picture below.
Now, if you're ok with the controls looking different, you could use custom renderers to modify each native control or even replace them to provide the functionality you need. I thought I'd outline the basic steps for you to get you started:
Create a new Xamarin.Forms control called CustomPicker or something.
Create custom renderers for each platform.
On iOS, you can use the UIPickerView and specify numberOfComponents, numberOfRows and the data source.
On Android, you might want to use a 3rd party control since by default, there are no scrolling picker controls like the one on iOS. WheelPicker looks promising.
On UWP, you might be able to work something out using the PickerFlyoutBase. I have limited knowledge on the platform but you should be able to find something quite easily.
As you can see, it's going to be quite an effort to get the scroll picker working on each platform.
Edit: You could also look into native embedding, which lets you embed native controls into Xamarin.Forms app's pages.
Native Embedding
Embedding native controls into Xamarin.Forms
We've developed a two-column picker for Xamarin.Forms (Android and iOS).
Sample:
https://github.com/HorusSoftwareUY/MaterialDesignControlsPlugin#materialdoublepicker
Screenshots:
Android
iOS
We added this control to MaterialDesignControls NuGet (https://www.nuget.org/packages/Plugin.MaterialDesignControls/), where you can find other interesting controls with the material design look and feel.
Contributions are welcome!
Is the image slider that the Windows 8 Camera app uses available as a control within the framework? It has nice transitions between images and provides previous and next buttons.
There is callisto refernce in nuget there you can find flipview like windows 8 app store
There is a FlipView control if you are referring to that.
You have some similar controls already built-in, such as FlipView if you want the previous and next buttons.
But if you want all the features in the image gallery application (with zooming capabilities), you will have to create your own component. I did, and it was quite painful, but sadly I did not have the time to package it properly to share with the community. Maybe someone else did it.
I'm new to iOS programming and one thing I don't get. I have an app idea, I paid for graphic designer to make me a UI design. He sent me a layered psd with custom designed controls, layout etc. Everything is custom designed, not using standard iOS looking controls as I wanted.
The question is how can be this custom design converted to iOS controls, layout and so?
If I consider a Facebook iPad application or Foursquare iPhone application, are that just "skinned" iOS standard controls, or is it written in HTML5 and just wrapped by Objective-C? If so, how?
Thank you
I recommend that you use Objective-C for native applications. Most controls provide support for "skinning" by allowing you to provide your own images. For example, UISlider has methods to set minimum and maximum image, the track image and tint color as well as the thumb image and tint color. Ray Wenderlich often provides great tutorials on his site that are worth checking out.
In SCSF application I would like to display a view as a modal window at the center of the screen. Is it possible to do that?
WindowSmartPartInfo doesn't have any option for setting screen postion.
Thanks.
Assuming you're talking about Winforms, not WPF since the WPF layer for CAB does expose this option. In winforms there is no option in the WindowSmartPartInfo to do this. However, you could extend it and extend WindowWorkspace to use your new SmartPartInfo (override the OnApplySmartPartInfo method).
Before you do this, you might want to check the contrib and community sites to see if anyone has already done it. I think I've seen one somewhere.