I am working on a mobile app using Xamarin Forms on Visual Studio. However I am unable to use PC keyboard for input on android emulator. Please help me out of this. Making input using mouse is taking much time and energy.
Also please add info how can I enable PC keyboard on IOS emulator too.
Please edit your emulator and make sure the hw.keyboard is selected.
hw.keyboard:
Keyboard support – Determines whether the emulated device supports a QWERTY keyboard.
Refer: Editing Android Virtual Device Properties
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I'm currently developing a little project, i've bought a "smart lock" with works with Bluetooth and uses an open platform called TTLock. The resources are here: https://open.ttlock.com/doc/userGuide
The idea is to create my own App to control this "smart lock" using the methods created by TTLock.
The web page gives SDK resources for Android and IOS, but i want to program my App in Xamarin.Forms. My question is, can I "add" the Android SDK and the IOS SDK to my Xamarin.Forms solution and work with that methods, or i have to program first in Android Studio and later in an IOS IDE?
Thank you so much for your time and your responses. I'm learning about programming APPs on IDE, so all knowledge will be appreciated.
My question is, can I "add" the Android SDK and the IOS SDK to my Xamarin.Forms solution and work with that methods,
The answer of the first question is Yes. You could refer to Binding a .JAR document to use it in Android, and refer to Binding iOS Libraries document to use it in iOS.
or i have to program first in Android Studio and later in an IOS IDE?
The second question is depends on you. You will not need to use native IDE to do that.
For Android, there are two ways to get the native library:
Using Android Studio to download it
Going to Source repository website to download it
First method, I think you already know that, from the document you will find the sample steps:
The Second method, the shared document is chineses language. Therefore, you could find the source repository website here: https://maven.aliyun.com/mvn/search, and search by typing tongtonglock you will see the navtive libraries as follows. Then you can pick one to download.
For iOS, you could refer to its sample link to get the framework.
ASP.NET Form. If running a form in a browser on a small (Android) device with a barcode scanner, will the scanned barcode go into the ASP.NET textbox? Or I need to add something to the application?
Well, it going to depend on which of the 150+ barcode scanners you decide to grab from google play.
However, the answer is yes, or no. It will depend on the kind of scanner.
If you download just a scanning application (software based - not built in scanner).
The reason is Android (and even iOS) don't allow one application to set focus, get/grab/take data from other applications. Nor is the reverse allowed. If that was possible, then the app could also get/grab/take values from when you are say running your on-line banking application.
I don't think Android thus supports focus to another application during scan that has focus. Now if this is factory supplied software on the phone? Then yes, this works like a desktop keyboard "wedge". That means the program does not know if you are typing from keyboard, or input is from the scanner (hence the name keyboard wedge). These will work with a web form.
However, we now seeing the rise of software based keyboard wedges. That means the software scanner is installed on android as a custom keyboard. And this in case, then once again, it will work in a web form.
So, for devices with a built in scanner? yes, that will work in all applications. For a software only (uses built in camera), then again, this is possible if the software in question works as a keyboard/wedge scanner.
If you going to adopt android scanning? then use a purpose built Android scanner.
And another possible if you want to use a software scanner? Write a small android application and have it talk to your web site. This I think is the best solution, but of course means you have to adopt some Android dev tools.
So how this works will depend on if the android device has a built in scanner, or it is a software + camera based scanner. However, it would seem that even now installable software based scanners in theory can be made to work for any application since the application is running and behaving as a user installed keyboard.
So, you have to check the particular device. The answer is not in all cases, and the answer depends on if you using a Android device with a built in scanner, or you looking to use any Android phone as that scanner.
Does jxbrowser support swipe and scrolling of a webpage via touchscreen on Windows XP system? I found topic:
https://groups.google.com/a/teamdev.com/forum/#!topic/jxbrowser-forum/T4fH_7Z8H7c
but as I see it's implemented only for Windows 8.x, am I right?
On our system it works with touch but the behavior is simulate of handling with mouse. I mean if I touch on arrow in the scrollbar it will scroll but I can not scroll swiping in the middle of page. We use version 6.5.
Is it possible to configure it somehow so it will work on Windows XP or this functionality is not implemented?
Regards,
Pavlo
As far as I know swipe gestures were introduced in Windows 8. Touch gestures in Chromium engine are implemented using Windows 8 SDK, so they will not work on Windows XP at all. All touch events are simulated as mouse events on Windows XP, but if we are talking about gestures, then I don't think that Windows XP "knows" how to extract gesture from a set of mouse events (especially if we are talking about multi touch). I recommend that you first check how Google Chrome works on Windows XP with touch screen. If Google Chrome doesn't work in such environment, then JxBrowser will not work in the same environment as well.
I am trying to sync my iPad with the iOS simulator (8.1.1) for debugging under XCode 6.1. How can I tell if they are both using the same iCloud account? I have looked in Google and SO, but found nothing that would answer my question.
Thanks...
Open up the Settings app, and scroll down to iCloud. It lists your account below "iCloud"
Is it possible to show images in Skype chat window ?
(windows 7 Skype client)
You can share your desktop using the windows desktop client (not Windows Modern), or drag and drop a image (or any file) into an IM window, or if you are using the iOS client do this - http://mashable.com/2012/08/21/skype-photo-sharing-update/
Update 7/9/14: More clients now support picture sharing in the chat: Xbox one, Windows Phone and iOS all have it now.
Update 09/10/14: Window and Mac too now (improved-skype-desktop-clients-for-a-dynamic-new-chat-experience)
Disclosure: I currently work for Microsoft/Skype
I think no, only you can share links to image, if you think on showing send image immediately, without download them.
There's a discussion/plea for such a feature at the Skype Community. Also, there's this Feature Suggestion separately. Please support.
If you are looking to share photos in real-time, the following tool allows for an online, collaborative slide show. I use it regularly to show pictures to my family over a skype session: http://www.photozzap.com/