after resent update CrossSecureStorage is not able to save value through CrossSecureStorage plugin

It would be good to have a cross platform text to speech support for multiple languages and ability to pronounce foreign names properly with perhaps additional phonetic inputs.

Can we get a plugin for this?

Referencing old issue jamesmontemagno/Xamarin.Plugins#73 to create a plugin for cross-platform audio support.

I am trying to build the Gigya components for the solution: GigyaSDK.Android.sln and getting an error related to the GSResponse assembly. Also I see there is no reference to the Gigya SDK. Can anyone help me to fix this issue. Any blogs or articles on Gigya integration with Xamarin is much appreciated.

Can we get a cross-platform video player implementation? At the moment, I have no idea how to spin up native video players across the three platforms.

Hello everyone!
I am desperate. Can not authenticate. Did everything from (here)[https://components.xamarin.com/view/dropboxcoreapiandroid]
Error:

Unhandled Exception:



Java.Lang.IllegalStateException: URI scheme in your app's manifest is not set up correctly. You should have a com.dropbox.client2.android.AuthActivity with the scheme: db-AppKey

my androidmanifest:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="BLEApp.BLEApp" android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0" android:installLocation="auto">
  <activity
android:name="com.dropbox.client2.android.AuthActivity"
android:launchMode="singleTask"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboard">
    <intent-filter>
      <!-- Change this to be db- followed by your app key -->
      <data android:scheme="db-AppKey" />
      <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
      <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
      <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    </intent-filter>
  </activity>
  
	<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="18" android:targetSdkVersion="23" />
  
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

	<application android:label="BLEApp"></application>



</manifest>

My Activity where I am running authentication:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

using Android.App;
using Android.Content;
using Android.OS;
using Android.Runtime;
using Android.Views;
using Android.Widget;


using System.Net;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Threading;
using Dropbox.CoreApi.Android;
using Java.Lang;
using Dropbox.CoreApi.Android.Session;

namespace BLEApp.Activities
{
    [Activity(Label = "Настройки")]
    public class SettingsActivity : Activity
    {
        string AppKey = "AppKey";
        string AppSecret = "AppSecret";
        DropboxApi dropboxApi;

        protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
        {
            base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);
           

            // Create your application here
        }

        private async void getList() {




    }
        protected  override void OnStart()
        {
            base.OnStart();

            AppKeyPair appKeys = new AppKeyPair(AppKey, AppSecret);
            AndroidAuthSession session = new AndroidAuthSession(appKeys);
            dropboxApi = new DropboxApi(session);
            (dropboxApi.Session as AndroidAuthSession).StartOAuth2Authentication(this);
        }

        protected  override void OnResume()
        {
            base.OnResume();

            // After you allowed to link the app with Dropbox,
            // you need to finish the Authentication process
            var session = dropboxApi.Session as AndroidAuthSession;
            if (!session.AuthenticationSuccessful())
                return;

            try
            {
                // Call this method to finish the authentication process
                // Will bind the user's access token to the session.
                session.FinishAuthentication();

                // Save the Access Token somewhere
                var accessToken = session.OAuth2AccessToken;
            }
            catch (IllegalStateException ex)
            {
                Toast.MakeText(this, ex.LocalizedMessage, ToastLength.Short).Show();
            }
        }


    }
}

And yes, AppKey is taken from dev of dropbox. Changed only here
How to fix?

When I try to build the GoogleVr binding library there are missing classes.jar files in every project. Where can I find these?

Or where can I download a nuget package for this?

As I navigate to the manual card entry page, the "cancel" and "done" buttons of the card entry screen don't work. I have used breakpoints in my code. Even the handlers aren't called on the button clicks.
After the card details are entered, the "done" button doesn't work and the cancel button crashes the application.

Please add https://github.com/ringcentral/ringcentral-csharp to the list of plugins, it was made specifically with Xamarin support in mind.

Name - RingCentral
Description - This SDK wraps the RingCentral Connect Platform API
Documentation - https://github.com/ringcentral/ringcentral-csharp
Nuget - https://www.nuget.org/packages/RingCentralSDK/
Creator - @ringcentral

I found the case where IsConnected will always be false after disabling network (wifi and 3g) on my iphone and then enabling it again. No matter how many times I call to "IsConnected" after that. It will always be false

I started this new plugin:

https://github.com/alesvi/Xamarin.Plugins.RestClient

The idea is create all the methods I find useful to send requests to REST APIs.

Any opinions or ideas will be appreciated.

Hello,
There are new versions for both components. So I suggest that update them, please.
Thanks you

Hi,
making a "blank app Xamarin.Forms Portable" solution, will take a long time for a blank project to finish doing all the inner projects.

also, closing the solution and re-opening it, takes a long time.

lastly, the compiling of the blank project in debug/release takes a very long time.

Regards.

Please assign a more appropriate name for GetCellHeight in API definition which is somehow being set to correspond with heightForCellTopLabelAtIndexPath in iOS version JSQMessageViewController

There are a few repositories that have defined a target like this:

var TARGET = Argument ("t", Argument ("target", "Default"));

Because some of these repositories do not have a Default task, this fails to build via the build the world-bootstrapper:

./build.ps1

Thus you'll get an error:

Error: The target 'Default' was not found.

VS bug #732180

MapboxSampleAndroid wont even load. It hangs VS with indefinite "initializing" of the project.

MapboxSampleiOS will load, but wont build. Error "Pointers and fixed size buffers may only be used in an unsafe context". SO I marked several methods in Additions.cs with "unsafe" and I re-created the iOS project, and everything builds. BUT, when I deploy (to Simulator with iOS 10), I then get this error:

System.Exception: Could not create an native instance of the type 'Mapbox.MapView': the native class hasn't been loaded.

It is possible to ignore this condition by setting ObjCRuntime.Class.ThrowOnInitFailure to false.

MapView.cs ctor

My enviro:
VS 2015 Enterprise Update 3 installed with Xamarin 4.2.0.695. Running in VMware on Macbook, Xcode 8.0 (8A218a). Other iOS apps launch and run fine from VS (no issue with provisioning, etc).

As a side note, I am noting extremely sparse documentation for Mapbox (even on Mapbox end, not just Xamarin). I would like to know how important Mapbox is to the community - what other xplat map solution is there if not this? Will this be a key focus for Xamarin/MS? I would think maps on mobile is a common requirement for a lot of developers out there. It's a obviously an official first class citizen in the Xamarin Components here, but I'm shocked to see the current state of all this. I literally am dead in the water right now.

@topgenorth I am trying to get up and running with the JobDispatcher. I create a simple app to test but was getting a crash when the job kicked off until I added the Xamarin.Android.Support.v4 library. Adding that library forced me then to add Support.Compat, Support.Core.UI, ... Is there any reason why I need those other libraries in order to use the job dispatcher?

In light of Twiter's FastLane Pilot it would be worthwhile to FOSS Test Cloud and also make available a free tier

I have created a cross platform library to get application identity information (app display name, package id and version string), attempting to follow all the requirements for creating Xamarin Plugins.

The project is hosted at albertofustinoni/AppInfoPlugin and a NuGet package is available

If it qualifies, would it be possible to add it to the list of Xamarin Plugins?

Since Google has been big on Firebase, is it possible to have a Firebase plug-in?

The 'Getting Started' page for the Xamarin Mapbox SDK (https://components.xamarin.com/gettingstarted/mapboxsdk) implies that the 'Access Coarse Location' and 'Access Fine Location' are optional permissions.

I have used the SDK in an App which doesn't require showing the user's location on the map, so I haven't added those permissions to my own manifest. However, upon uploading it to the play store, it wants to add these as new permissions. After some investigation I tracked them down in the manifest for the SDK itself (https://github.com/xamarin/XamarinComponents/blob/301b121b06ee6267d5136d481d0788d3009c1054/XPlat/Mapbox/Android/source/MapboxSDK.Android/Additions/Manifest.cs).

Would it make sense to remove these, along with the Wifi hardware feature as they aren't explicitly required by apps which use the SDK? Thanks 👍

We have received a request to update JSQMessagesViewController to 7.3.4.

While I'm confident that we are okay to use this in our project, I worry that our lawyers may not be as excited. Could you please provide a license file or some other explicit note on the licensing of this module? I assume it is MIT like most of the rest of Xamarin.

Heads up so others don't duplicate efforts, am currently working on this:

Telephony will be a xplat library that provides email, sms, voice and video
call functionality. Supports Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Windows Phone 8/8.1
(Silverlight and WPA)

https://github.com/ghuntley/telephony

If anyone is keen to do api review on the Email class - specifically comments about attachments that would be appreciated.

Lately, I had a project where I needed to refactor the logic for downloading files in the background.

For that I created a plugin and decided to make it available to everyone - and also published a nuget package.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xam.Plugins.DownloadManager/

As of now, it only supports Android and iOS.

If you have time, please review the code and tell me what I have to do to get my plugin added to this list. The documentation may seems quite short, but feel free to ping me for any questions you have.

If you try to use a clean installation of Visual studio 2017, on a JUST INSTALLED CLEAN system, Xamarin.Build.Download fails with message Could not find 7zip.exe in Xamarin installation from the method Get7ZipPath().

It is because on a clean system, Windows registry key for xamarin and visual studio 2017 FINAL are completely different, and so Get7ZipPath() method needs to be updated to find the new correct path that is

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Xamarin.VisualStudio\7-Zip\7z.exe

instead of reach the end of the method where

throw new Exception("Could not find 7zip.exe in Xamarin installation")

instruction is called.

EDIT:
This is my windows registry content in relevant key for this case:

Xamarin.reg.txt
VisualStudio.reg.txt

Hello friends,

I'm trying to make the demo to run on a Xamarin.Android project, however I got an error when I tap on the textview and it gets the focus.
Didn't find class "com.bartoszlipinski.viewpropertyobjectanimator.ViewPropertyObjectAnimator" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.vh.vandroidfloatingsearchview-1/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/com.vh.vandroidfloatingsearchview-1/lib/x86_64, /system/fake-libs64, /data/app/com.vh.vandroidfloatingsearchview-1/base.apk!/lib/x86_64, /system/lib64, /vendor/lib64]]

Any idea what could the issue be?

Note: I'm using the same code found on this repository, however I compiled a new version of the original JAVA library and updated the Support versions to 25.1.1

Thanks in advance

Getting reports in the comments

https://components.xamarin.com/view/MWPhotoBrowser

Hi,

1. i was forced to use your project instead of:
   https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms
   https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-android

Because The issues tab is not open their, so please can you contact their admin to allow the issues tab.

1. When adding/Deleting a resource in Xamarin.Forms "Droid, iOS" in the Droid\Resources\drawable and iOS\Resources, its a very slow operation, and if you are adding a lot of images like .png with 1 megabyte each, then you need to go to get a cub of cafe.

Regards.

Hello,
I have created a plugin for cross platform access to the clipboard. I used the visual studio templates for the projects and I think it qualifies.
I have also created a pull request ( #106 ) that adds it to the list.

NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.Plugins.Clipboard/

Thank you

Hi, I'd like to make some extensions for the Login Screen Component https://components.xamarin.com/view/loginscreen/ but i can't find the source code.

For example the activity label:

Could it be possible to have an icon template and associated guidelines for it in order to have uniformized plugins icons ?

Many plugins from @jamesmontemagno have a blue background, and I've recreated the background template myself, but an official one could be great for everybody : with this a quick look into NuGet package explorer allows us to quickly identify all the plugins.

It would be a nice plugin for Xamarin create a better cross-platform implementation for a Bluetooth manager, instead of creating, for example in Xamarin.Android a BluetoothAdapter, a BluetoothSocket, a BluetoothDevice, a Stream for outputs and another for inputs.

For our apps we know common data like MAC address or the name of the device, so the plugin can just search for that device, and we only going to concentrate for the inputs and outputs methods.

You should change File System Plugin to https://github.com/Aragas/PCLExt.FileStorage
Since current one is very old and doesn't work on Android KitKat and up

I just recognized, that the link to my library CrossDownloadManager got removed here in the following commit: 8906425

Is there a specific reason for removing it, or do you just not want this list to grow extremely large as time goes by?

when will google vr sdk will be available on xamarin components store or Nuget?

I think that we all need a cross-platform library for Google Analytics which would easily connect to Xamarin

Please require all components to include a badge/table/list/bullets of all the platforms that are supported/unsupported by it.

At least one package (Xam.Plugin.Connectivity) does not install under VS2015+NuGet3 due to the use of content files for the readme. I imagine other plugins are using the same technique.

Replicate Xamarin.Mobile functionality of querying each platforms contacts with a simple cross-platform API.

Hello everyone. I am building for a company a cross platform application Xamarin environment and to be able to do what I was required to use GoogleVR component, especcialy the videowidget tool, for iOS and Android inside XPlat folder. My problem is reflected in outdated versions of Google VR libraries (the last was 0.8.0, now is 1.3.0) to use and therefore can not apply newer methods and also there is nothing about an explanation to import correctly the library for his metadata and transform reference. Someone managed to operate the native library binding through the reference solutions for the new library references with a sample code? If so I would be really grateful needing a proper tutorial.

VS bug #732190

Hey Guys,

I created a binding library and turned it into a Nuget. It is basically a wrapper of Googles new FlexBoxLayout.

https://github.com/btripp/FlexboxLayoutXamarinBindingAndroid

Simply install into an application and you will get a crash when the app launches on iOS 10.2 when you set:

iRate.Instance.PreviewMode = true;

Objective-C exception thrown. Name: NSInvalidArgumentException Reason: -[AppDelegate window]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x608000010710

I also assume that it will crash if it is in normal mode and wants to pop up a dialog. Assumption is dialog has been remove for whatever they are trying to open.

I see there is one for iOS.

Hello,

Great job on the MapBox ios SDK, I just have one issue with this, when trying to use offline storage, I can't access fields of struct OfflinePackProgress (https://github.com/xamarin/XamarinComponents/blob/master/XPlat/Mapbox/iOS/source/MapboxSDK.iOS/StructsAndEnums.cs#L73-L78)

I can guess it's because they are not marked as public, but is there any reason for this ?

Thanks,
Julien.

The Google VR components are not published on Nuget there is however a nuspec file. Would be nice if they could be submitted to Nuget

https://github.com/xamarin/XamarinComponents/blob/master/XPlat/Estimote/Android/component/GettingStarted.md
_region = this.GetBeaconAndRegion().Item2;

I'm getting red underlined on 'Item2', the error is
"object does not contain a definition for 'Item2' and no extension method 'Item2' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found(are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

This iOS issue was reported over in the Xamarin Forums:

https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/80445/cannot-register-for-telemetry-notifications-from-estimote-sdk-possibly-a-problem-with-the-bindings

Any ideas on how to resolve it?