I’ve been tinkering in Xamarin, to allow my development to more easily target multiple mobile platforms.
I’ve made a start on two apps, and I just hit a little wall that was easily fixed but I thought was worth sharing:
The Xamarin tutorials show navigation as being done with a “Push” like this:
await Navigation.PushAsync (new Page2Xaml ());
Which is great, except it doesn’t work out of the box.
The issue is for this to function, you need your app to be utilizing a NavigationPage element. A Navigation page is a page which holds other pages and navigation… I suppose (very) roughly like a Frame in UWP.
But the default templates don’t include one. So the easy way to change it is to go to your App.xaml.cs and change the constructor from opening a regular page like this:
MainPage = new MyAppName.Views.MainView();
to this creating a NavigationPage and then “Push”-ing to the start view**:
var p = new NavigationPage();
MainPage = p;
p.PushAsync(new MyAppName.Views.MainView());
Now your whole application exists within the NavigationPage element and navigation should work as intended.
Rob,
Valley Software.
** Yes the var is not required, however this is a logical layout to show the example.