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Hans — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 04:48:06 GMT

Hello,

The Crosslight development team has managed to fix the “Building Android Project” issue.
You could get the hotfix, Crosslight v2.0.5000.117, from this link below:
http://git.intersoftpt.com/projects/CROS/repos/updates/browse

Please kindly have review on the hotfix and let me know the result on your end.

Thank you for your helps.

Regards,
Hans K.

Crosslight with Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion for Xamarin

thomas.albert@tea-net.ch — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 07:58:32 GMT

Ok. I keep on developing with build 95 until I here anything different from you or Crosslight 3 will be released.

Thanks,

Thomas

Crosslight with Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion for Xamarin

thomas.albert@tea-net.ch — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 07:58:10 GMT

Ok. I keep on developing with build 95 until I here anything different from you or Crosslight 3 will be released.

Thanks,

Thomas

Crosslight with Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion for Xamarin

Hans — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 02:37:06 GMT

Hello,

I apologize for any inconvenience this problem may have caused you.

I suggest to use build 95 for now. The developer team will investigate the issue further more.

Thank you for your understanding.

Regards,
Hans K.

Crosslight with Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion for Xamarin

thomas.albert@tea-net.ch — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:46:36 GMT

Hello Jimmy,

today I installed the latest updates of Xamarin and I run into the same problem as 2 weeks ago.

Building my Android projects with build 96 creates lots of errors (see attached screenshot).

Switching back to build 95 solved the problem. So it seems Xamarin fixed a problem which was fixed on the Crosslight side with build 96 and both fixes don't work well together.

What is your recommendation? Is switching back to build 95 the solution or will there be a build 97?

Thanks,

Thomas

Crosslight with Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion for Xamarin

jimmyps@intersoftpt.com — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:17:36 GMT

Hi Thomas,

Glad to hear that your issues are now resolved with the latest build.

We don't usually experience breaking changes with Xamarin or Android, so we didn't expect to see this issue happened. FYI, when Crosslight 2.5 is released, it works fine with the current release of Xamarin. This issue apparently occurred due to breaking changes in the latest Xamarin Android build which is released after Crosslight 2.5. So we quickly create a patch and published build 96.

We highly recommend our customers to always install and use the latest version of our products as well as the dependent platforms/products. This helps us and our customers stay ahead with the latest technologies. If youencountered issues with one of the latest updates, best chance is our team is already aware with the issue and will publish an update very soon. So, don't be afraid to install the latest stable updates.

We appreciate your feedback regarding which Xamarin versions and OS are tested in the published build. We will implement that in our next documentation update. Again, thank you for your feedback and compliment.

Best,
Jimmy

Crosslight with Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion for Xamarin

thomas.albert@tea-net.ch — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:47:47 GMT

Hello Jimmy,

thanks a lot for this quick fix. I followed your instructions and the sample now works in my environment. A new project created with the project wizard now works, too.

Great. This kind of support is really outstanding.

But it is the third time I ran into such an issue. My strategy so far was "always install the latest versions". I know that Crosslight has many dependencies (Xamarin, Android SDK, Java, ...) which makes it difficult. So what strategy would you suppose for installing product updates? How do you handle this at Intersoft?

Maybe you could publish a kind of requirements list with each update of Crosslight. This list says for example: Crosslight 2 Update 5 works with Xamarin iOS version "xyz" to version "qwe", Xamarin Android version "xyz" to version "qwe". It was tested with Android SDK up to version "23". Please, do not install Mac OSX Yosemite, because there are the following issues.

Just as a proposal. Maybe it would make live easier for us developers and your support.

Thanks,

Thomas

Crosslight with Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion for Xamarin

jimmyps@intersoftpt.com — Sat, 18 Oct 2014 06:41:04 GMT

Hi Thomas,

Please try the Crosslight nightly build 96 provided in the attachment. Please make sure you clean your projectsand perform rebuild to ensure the new assemblies are referenced.

Let me know if it resolves the Android problem.

Thanks,
Jimmy

Crosslight with Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion for Xamarin

thomas.albert@tea-net.ch — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:47:12 GMT

Hello,

me again (please, see the previous two entries of this post for the whole story). I just switched to an older version of my development VM.

The Syncfusion chart sample works on this machine.

So, there must definitely be a problem with the latest versions of Xamarin and/or with the latest Android SDK.

Do you have any news, ideas, solutions for this problem?

Thanks,

Thomas

Crosslight with Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion for Xamarin

thomas.albert@tea-net.ch — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:48:20 GMT

Hello,

after doing some more investigation, the situation got worse.

Most of my older apps (Android) work. New apps created with Crosslight project wizard (2_0_5000_95) don't work (Android). I get the same error as reported above. An older app which uses the googlemap component (Android) doesn't work, too.

Current installation:

Xamarin 3.7.226.0

Xamarin.Android 4.18.0.38

Xamarin.iOS 8.2.0.0

As mentoined earlier, I updated to the latest versions today. Since then I experienced the problems. But before I worked with Crosslight 2 Update 4.

I hope you have any idea what the problem might be.

Thanks,

Thomas

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I found this on the Xamarin page:

Known Issues in 4.18.0.30

ACW's. That was accidentally broken.

Workaround: Use ACW names in Layout .axml, not C# type names.

This will be fixed in 4.18.0.32.

Crosslight with Xamarin Forms and Syncfusion for Xamarin

thomas.albert@tea-net.ch — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 16:02:33 GMT

Hello Crosslight Support,

as you surely know Xamarin has an app building pattern called Xamarin Forms. Xamarin Forms and Crosslight are in some points very similar. So I wonder if there is any chance to use Xamarin Forms in a Crosslight solution?

These days a third party component for Xamarin Forms is available from Syncfusion. With this component one can integrate charts, gauges, on device creation of Word, Excel and PDF documents to apps created with Xamarin Forms, which is a great feature. It would be great to have this together with Crosslight. Do you see any change to have this working?

Thanks,

Thomas