Category Archives: Xamarin Forms

Using accent color as ListView selected cell color (Xamarin Forms Android)

The Xamarin Forms ListView control displays a list of items and can also indicate currently selected item. However, if you modified the base colors of your Android application the background color of the currently selected item is not matching the Android accent color. This can be achieved by a custom cell renderer which will set… Read More »

InputTransparent vs IsEnabled in Xamarin Forms

One of the problems in Xamarin Forms is that it is not possible to setup the text colors of disabled elements (elements where IsEnabled property is set to false). However you do not need to set the IsEnabled property to disable it, there is an alternative property called InputTransparent. Setting InputTransparent to true (by default… Read More »