Tuesday, May 7, 2019

How to add and use photos in Xamarin forms


  1. On the main Xamarin project. Right click-add folder-name it. Put your photos in there.
  2. Right click on photo - select Build Action - Then Embedded Resource.
  3. Add photo into IOS and Android projects ---
  4. Right click on photo and select Copy.


Adding the photo into IOS and Android
so the photo will show up on IOS and Android OS

  1. Go to IOS/Android Project.
  2. Scroll to Resources. Right click on Resources.(on Android inside Resources-right click drawable)
  3. Click paste. (On IOS, right click image-Select BundleResource)
In Xaml file
  • <Image Source="" x:Name="MyImage"/>  //MyImage is name to access it from c#
In C# file
  •  MyImage.Source = ImageSource.FromFile("logo.jpg");  //logo.jpg is name of file

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