I'm a starter in writing app code in Visual Studio 2013 Community Apache Cordova and have managed to connect VS2013 with my Mac. Once I have gone through the process of building the app in VS and on my Mac and installing in on my iPhone, I open it up and it won't rotate. It doesn't rotate for a number of basic apps that I've written nor does it rotate if I build the default new project "Hello, your application is ready!" app.
I have done some research and tried changing the config.xml "Orientation" preference to "both", through the code window and also in the designer window but that doesn't change anything. I've also noticed that adding in a "BackgroundColor" preference doesn't work either.
Does anyone know if I may have configured something incorrectly or perhaps need to add something to my code?
All the HTML, JS and CSS that I've written seems to work okay (with the exception of trying to link URLs to the Safari Browser but that's another issue).
I have noticed the same issues. I tried finding some settings to fix that in the config.xml, but was not successful. I have resolved myself to just opening the iOS project in XCode and changing a few things:
Device Orientation: no matter the config.xml setting, its always only Portrait. I click-check the other 3 orientations.
Team: I have multiple developer profiles, and I need to choose correct one here.
Bundle Identifier. I screwed up one project, and have different case for iOS and Android. I leave the VS one as the Android one, so I can build completely correct for Android. Since I know I have to go to XCode for iOS anyway, I change the bundle identifier here.
You can find the project using Finder at ~/remote-builds/builds/9999/cordovaApp/platforms/ios/*.xcodeproj, where 9999 is the build number, though not necessarily the latest, largest number, but the latest datetime of the folder.
You can also refer to Greg's answer in this related post as an alternative solution.
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Starting from a standard Xamarin forms app template and changing the app icons in assets.xcassets, I am unable to make this take effect. The initial xamarin icon keeps showing when deployed to physical devices.
In assets.xcassets, I added all the required image sized.
I ensured that in plist info this asset was set as app icons source.
I have tried cleaning, rebuilding and deleting from the ipad and iphone I am testing with. No success.
I tried deleting the default asset and creating a new one, and make pinfo point to this, and still the old Xamarin icon shows up. This makes me think that there is a cache somewhere on either my windows pc, on which I am developing using vs2019, or on the mac which VS is connected to for doing the actual build, and this is not getting updated, since otherwise that old icon should not exist any longer.
I did read this answer
Xamarin forms: Launcher icon for ios
Which indicates that the OP has a problem with a mismatched path to the asset, but that does not seem to be the case for me. The xcasset folder is at the root of the ios project. As this is simply the default test project it is app1/App1.ios/Fawk.xcassets and the entry in pinfo is
XSAppIconAssets
Fawk.xcassets/AppIcons.appiconset
Does this make any kind of sense?
Edit: Tried vs2019, xamarin forms template. Deleted default asset in assetcatalogs under ios, created a new one, set all my custom icon images (png), updated info.plist/visual assets/appicon to my new asset and then ran it on a physical device. The default xamarin icon is what shows up. This seems to indicate it is not a cache issue, as I suspected, but... something else...
You can right-click Assets.xcassets and view it in the folder, there is a json file in it, please check if the file name is correct.
According to the official documentation, if you are not connected to a Mac, it will only display the original image. For more information, you can check: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/deploy-test/hot-restart#limitations
I am using Visual Studio For Mac. My Xamarin Forms project is quite large and contains many content pages. Some of them will be only used in android project and some of them only used in iOS project. There is no problem when I compile the project into android. However, when I want to compile the project into iOS, it seems like did not accept anything related to android. Please refer to the screenshot. There is no way I can include the android specialised reference and compile into iOS project. So, any idea to deal with this? Maybe there is a way to force build the iOS project no matter what? The error from the screenshot is from the page that will be only used in android. So what I can do for now is delete the page when I want to compile as iOS and recreate the page when I want to used it for android. But there are plenty of them, it is too heavy for me to do this every time. Please help.
You can't call platform specific APIs at the .NET standard libraries that are used to host Xamarin.Forms code by default.
Basically you have those options:
1) using shared project instead of library and using conditional compiling (easier but it is now not available as the option when creating the project)
2) using dependency injection.
I was running my application from Flash Builder 4.5.1 without any issues. (It is a Flex application that connects to .Net Web Services). However, something has changed recently in my configuration or project, because when I try to run the app with the play or debug button, I just get a grey screen. I can't even stop on any breakpoints.
Eventually (maybe 30 seconds), a message pops up like so: 'The Flash Builer failed to connect to the running application. Please make sure that you are running the debug version of Flash Player...'
I definitely have latest version of Flash Debug Player installed (11.1.102.55). I have tried uninstalling it and re-installing it.
I have tried cleaning and rebuilding my project.
I have tried switching to a different workspace and back again.
I have tried restarting the PC.
I am using the latest version of IE for testing.
I'm really stumped - has anybody got any ideas on how to solve this?
Thanks
Have you tried deleting the html-template folder? This has caused issues for me in the past.
After it's deleted, when you try to build you will have a compiler error/warning about the missing folder. Right click and 'rebuild'.
There are some issues with compatability between 64 bit IE9, the 64-bit flash player, and 32-bit debugger. It seems like flash builder gets confused on which to use. I haven't seen any decent resolution yet in the Adobe forums for this particular issue other than use a different browser for testing.
To switch browsers, go to Window > Preferences... > General > Web Browser in Flash Builder. Select Firefox or Chrome.
In order to use Firefox, you need the Flash Debugger for Netscape compatable browsers installed. You can get that from Adobe here.
To use Chrome, you need to replace the built in flash player that is installed with Chrome with the debug player. Instructions from Adobe are here.
This is the message while trying to run under XCode 4 (it used to work under XCode 3):
No provisioned iOS devices are available. Connect an iOS device or choose an iOS simulator as the destination.
I have profiles for my device for this app... where should I be looking to correct this?
The problem is that your iOS Deployment Target in Project-> Build Settings is different from the current version of iOS on your real device.
You're asking where to find it:
In XCode 4 there is a new button - look for the big
"Organizer button"
which is at the TOP RIGHT.
Physically connect your device and then click Devices. It seems that the new "Organizer button" is one of the "most-missed" things in the transition to XCode4.
Note, the questioner is asking: "WHERE should I be looking to correct this?"
I was having extra trouble because of my Enterprise License, but still updated the iPads. I didn't have to change anything in the Build Settings to lower. But the main thing that I had a problem with was in the Organizer I needed to hit "Use for Development" button.
Kind of an old post, and may not be the best way or a rookie thing to miss but wanted to help anyone out.
My problem similar to those above were related to having the deployment target set too high for the version installed on the phone. Would be nice if it gave a more useful error message. I spent hours messing with my provisioning profile trying to fix it, when the real problem was the older version of the software on the phone.
I had the same problem. The reason was simply, that my ipad had not been update to version 4.3.
This just happened to me for iOS5 with xcode 4.2.
The answer is to go into organiser, select your device, and press the "Develop with this device" button (or similar wording).
Then go back and build, and it should work..
I received this error while having an iPad properly connected.
Some info:
Ipad iOS version: 4.2.1
XCode 4.2
XCode project created with "iOS Application / Empty Application" template.
The problem was that I had to specify the "iOS Deployment Target" to 4.2 in more than one place!
That is, both in the "Build Settings" and in the "Summary".
Very odd, and definitely another XCode4 annoyance.
I got this error in Organizer - "Could not support development.". I tried rebooting the iOS device and it worked for me :)
Check that the Executable File (also known as CFBundleExecutable) in the Info.plist file is set to ${EXECUTABLE_NAME} as opposed to any hardcoded value. This will ensure that even if you change your project name or target name or scheme name, that it still works.
you need to install the proper version of iOS.in my case it is iOS 4.0 - 4.1 Device Debugging Support
GOTO --> XCode Preferences -> Downloads --> Component
there are all updates available for your iOS click Install.
This is works for me.
It looks like this error can also come about if the "Product Name" in your target's build settings does not match the value of "CFBundleExecutable" in your info.plist
It looks like to me this is the general error Apple gives if the executable is not installed correctly on the device. When the debugger tries to attach it looks for the executable name and if it's not there they give this error. Touch one to debug.
Go to build option and select valid compiler.
Chose your right iOS Deployment version
I can create an MVVMLight phone app in VS2010. It runs as it should. I can open it in Blend 4. That's all fine.
When I create a new WP7 MVVM project in Blend, several things are wrong:
1. Just compiling, get "A start page has not been specified...." WMAppManifest.xml has incomplete Task section. NavigationPage attrib. with MainPage.xaml is not there.
2. When I manually fix that and build, I get "Project could not be built." It references Microsoft.Phone.Controls.dll and Microsoft.Phone.Control.Navigation (no .dll--and not found, of course).
A non-MVVM Blend phone project correctly references Microsoft.Phone.dll (and Microsoft.Phone.Interop.dll). And it works fine.
Where have I gone wrong in my MVVM installation for Blend 4?
Thanks.
Unfortunately, the newest version of Blend 4 for Windows Phone 7 does not support custom template. What you see now in Blend are the old project templates.
I am aware that the install process at the moment is terrible, and I am working with members of the community to solve that issue (including cleaning up old files).
In the mean time, if you want to clean up old files, there is a list at http://www.galasoft.ch/mvvm/cleaning. Again, sorry that the process is manual at this time.
Cheers,
Laurent