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Hide the Tabs in an Android MobileTabPanel Using Declares

Published September 25, 2025 by Martin T.

Here’s how you can modify Xojo Android’s MobileTabPanel to behave more like the PagePanel found in Xojo Desktop and Web. A TabPanel, as the name…

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Spotlight On: Android Design Extensions

Published September 22, 2025 by Alyssa Foley

Spotlight On posts focus on Xojo community members. We’ll use this space to tell the stories of people using Xojo, share amazing Xojo-made apps and…

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Xojo for Android: A Two-Year Retrospective

Published September 16, 2025 by Xojo

Xojo 2023r2 was the version in which Xojo introduced the beta release of its Android support. Now, with the release of Xojo 2025r2, it’s time…

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Xojo Support for macOS 26 and iOS 26

Published September 15, 2025 by Geoff Perlman

Apple is rolling out some of its biggest design changes in years and we want to update you on where Xojo stands. Apple released macOS…

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DesktopTextArea Without Soft Wrapping Lines on macOS

Published September 9, 2025 by Javier Menendez

When adding a DesktopTextArea to your macOS app, just drag it from the Library into a Window (or Container) in the layout editor of the Xojo IDE. It works out of the box with native macOS behavior. But what if you want to change that native behavior, like, for example, disabling soft wrapping? Keep reading to learn how.

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Implementing a Non-Blocking Image Processor with Xojo Threads

Published August 28, 2025 by Gabriel Ludosanu

Have you ever written an app that needs to do some heavy lifting, like processing a big batch of files? Maybe you click a button,…

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4 Setting the Badge Color for Tabs on iOS

Published August 20, 2025 by Javier Menendez

This is the final article in our series on customizing the appearance of the NavigationBar and TabBar. In this post, we’ll go a step further and show how to change the default color of the tab badge which is red by default.

As you might expect, we’ll need a few more Declares to accomplish this. Continue reading to learn how!

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3 Coloring the Tab Bar on iOS

Published August 19, 2025 by Javier Menendez

In the first two blog posts, we saw how important it is to customize the NavigationBar when theming your iOS app. However, that’s only part of the equation, especially if your app also uses a TabBar. In that case, you’ll likely want to customize not only the background color of the TabBar, but also the text color of the selected tab and the color used for the unselected tabs.

Continue reading to learn how to do all of this thanks to the powerful flexibility of Declares!

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2 Coloring the Navigation Bar Text on iOS

Published August 18, 2025 by Javier Menendez

In a previous blog post, we covered how to set the color of the NavigationBar on a MobileScreen in iOS projects. However, if you’re customizing the Navigation Bar’s background, you’ll likely want control over the title text color and the color of any buttons added to it as well.

Continue reading to learn how to customize those elements too.

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1 Coloring Your iOS App Navigation Bar

Published August 11, 2025 by Javier Menendez

This is the first of a series of 4 posts about customizing the Navigation and Tab Bars. One of the best ways to give your iOS app a custom look is by theming the Navigation Bar. While it’s possible to do this using a ContainerControl or a Rectangle with carefully applied constraints, there’s a better and more direct approach—using Declares.

Keep reading to learn how to style your Navigation Bar.

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