Xamarin: Error in Layout Orientation

Qing Ryder

Gooday Everyone, am trying to navigate through a drawer in xamarin but there is an error in layout. the Application runs fine but the layout is jargon.

find attached:

please someone help me out in resolving this

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Amit Gupta8y ago
Accepted answer
Check your theme file and remove the windowActionBarOverlay line.

Alternatively, you need to put following lines to your layout page
1. Use fitsSystemWindows =true (as you used in your main page)

2. Add paddingTop instead of padding
android:layout_paddingTop="?attr/actionBarSize"
Do let me know, if it works
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Qing Ryder8y ago
Hello Amit,
can you help me out, in my Main.axml is contained the android v7 support widget which has a drawer layer for the Navigation menu.
Now i want to edit the Main.axml to hold also some content and i think am getting all wrong, the whole layout is now jargon.

can you assist me on how i can add content ontop of the drawer layout so as to fit in..

you can see the below screenshot to understand what i mean

from the screenshot now the drawer layout is at the bottom and i think that is what is causing this because as i added items on top of d layout, it kept on moving down.
can you assist?
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Amit Gupta8y ago
Yeah! using MainLauncher = true to multiple class can create confusion to android system. Use it in the splash screen and on OnCreate function, you can start your activity you wanted.

Note: Please avoid showing splash screen for 4-5 seconds, it would be a bad user experience to wait for few seconds, everytime user starts your application.

Although, every android app needs a cold start for some few seconds, you should show your splash screen in between for user interaction. I recommend you to use xml file for splash screen. (as you can see in Youtube app, Google Play Music etc)
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Qing Ryder8y ago
ya i Used that for the splash screen.
but after the splash screen, it displays another page different from what i want.

reading on Msdn, i learnt the MainLauncher used elsewhere will overide my splash screen
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Amit Gupta8y ago
Use MainLauncher = true in your class attribute
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Qing Ryder8y ago
Thank you @Amit Gupta.
please how do i set the Page i want the App to first Display at startup
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Qing Ryder8y ago
only content layout
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Amit Gupta8y ago
Is your toolvar also overlays to navigation drawer or it is happening with only content layout
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Qing Ryder8y ago
this is for the main.axml
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Qing Ryder8y ago
Find attached

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Amit Gupta8y ago
Can yu show your layout page
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Qing Ryder8y ago
The form/page is starting(app/home/diagonise) above the green border rather than underneath
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Amit Gupta8y ago
What is the issue?
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