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Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0 Release Notes

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What's New in this Release

  • "[Android Maps] Make markers available to subclasses" (#3751)
  • "CollectionView Requirements Gathering: Prep: Clean up usage of Element.Platform" (#3364)
  • "XAML Previewer - Support for no-build render" (#4096) (added in 3.4.0.1008975 (3.4.0))
  • Github #1700 - "[Enhancement] Desktop: TabStop/TabIndex support (for multiple Views)" (#4046)
  • Github #1724 - "[Enhancement] ImageButton" (#1974) (added in 3.4.0.987044-pre2 (3.4.0 Pre Release 2))
  • Github #1937 - "[UWP] Choppy animation" (#3911)
  • Github #3309 - "[WPF] NotImplementedException When executing Clear and Remove methods on ObservableCollection " (#3962)
  • Github #3648 - "Xamarin.Forms for WPF: cannot clear ListView selection" (#3962)
  • Github #3656 - "[Enhancement] Use WeakEventManager for Command.CanExecuteChanged" (#3852)
  • Github #3776 - "Add Reload method to WebView" (#4013)
  • Github #3845 - "[Enhancement] Make AutomationID Bindable" (#3879)
  • Github #4006 - "OnIdiom<T> and {OnIdiom} discrepancies." (#4225) (added in 3.4.0.987044-pre2 (3.4.0 Pre Release 2))
  • Github #4099 - "Xamarin XAML Compilation: Bad Property Values Should Be Identified by Line" (#4100) (added in 3.4.0.987044-pre2 (3.4.0 Pre Release 2))

Notable Changes

  • Github #1700 - "[Enhancement] Desktop: TabStop/TabIndex support (for multiple Views)" (#4046)
  • Github #1724 - "[Enhancement] ImageButton" (#1974) (added in 3.4.0.987044-pre2 (3.4.0 Pre Release 2))
  • Github #3845 - "[Enhancement] Make AutomationID Bindable" (#3879)

Release History

  • Thursday, November 15, 2018 - Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0.1008975 (3.4.0)
  • Thursday, November 8, 2018 - Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0.987044-pre2 (3.4.0 Pre Release 2)
  • Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0.925479-pre1 (3.4.0 Pre Release 1)

Thursday, November 15, 2018 - Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0.1008975 (3.4.0)

Issues Fixed

  • Github #4227 - "Compiled Bindings Only Finds Members on first Level of an inheritance hierarchy" (#4332)
  • Github #4326 - "XamlC fails when referencing internal Static properties" (#4334)
  • Github #4348 - "Compiled Bindings: Properties of Generic Base Classes have wrong Assembly." (#4352)

Additional fixes included in this release

  • "[Android] fix removed NativeSizeChanged" (#4395)

Thursday, November 8, 2018 - Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0.987044-pre2 (3.4.0 Pre Release 2)

Issues Fixed

Additional fixes included in this release

  • "[iOS] make button renderer constructor public" (#4313)
  • "[msbuild] use portable pdb files on Android" (#4201)
  • "Bump minimum Microsoft.NETCore.UniversalWindowsPlatform version to 6.0.12" (#4106)

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 - Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0.925479-pre1 (3.4.0 Pre Release 1)

Issues Fixed

Additional fixes included in this release

  • "[Android] Make GetIconDrawable virtual" (#3967)
  • "[GTK] Fix visibility in modal pages" (#3904)
  • "[Tizen] Cleanup XF.Platform.Tizen" (#4080)
  • "[Tizen] Fixes ActivityIndicator IsRunning state issue" (#4007)
  • "Gtk fix transparencies" (#3744)
  • "WPF - Apply font fix for button and span" (#3907)
  • Github #3689 - "WPF: Unable to intercept back button " (#3762)

Known Issues

  • Github #3796 - "[Android] MasterDetail default text style accessibility"
  • Github #3622 - "Android TalkBack reads elements behind modal pages"
  • Github #2580 - "Adding accessibility tags to a label seems to cause the renderer to need more space "

Breaking Changes

  • Changed default number of steps on UWP slider from 10 to 1000 in order to match Android. (#3141)

API Changes

Feedback welcome

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Open Source

Xamarin.Forms 3.4.0 is based on the open-source Xamarin.Forms repository: