Hello friends, notifying users about what happens in your mobile application is necessary. There is the Snack Bar which is good for this scenario. But in Xamarin.Forms by default, you don’t have the ability to call snack bar. Though by default you can’t do this, it is possible to make a Snack Bar in Xamarin…
Hello friends, Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Preview was made available for some time already, and it has several features which I’m excited about. These features where announced months ago, but the one which caught my attention was the Xamarin.Forms Shell. This feature is not yet available on the UWP platform as I’m writing this blog post today….
The listview is surely one of the most used Xamarin Forms views. It is flexible and permits users to display complex sets of data easily. It has several builtin functionalities. Some of which are straight forward and easy to implement and others are tricky. There are several advanced functionalities which can be implemented on the…
As a software developer, you may have come across a situation where you need to measure the quality the source code you have at hand. How well is the code written ? is it easily maintainable ? and similar important questions. Obviously, you don’t want to go through each line of code in the whole…
Its August and it’s school vacation in Cameroon 😊 and while others are on summer holidays, it’s the maker’s moment at the “Raspberry Jam Camer”. We share our passion for tech and the last working session we had was about teaching what the Raspberry Pi is to kids, and how to use it. This boot camp…
Building a web application is great. But building a web application which can run both offline and online seamlessly is awesome.You leverage Javascript, HTML, CSS… skills to build a custom application which works on your browser with or without internet connection. A few weeks ago I dove deeper into offline web applications with the courses…
Hi everyone, here is the third part of the Xamarin Forms Tips series. Today, we will look at how to change a view’s color randomly at run time. I implemented this feature in the “My Expenditures” application. As you can see on the screenshots above, the first letter of the user’s name changes color every…
Hi everyone, here is the second part of my Xamarin Tips series. Just as a reminder. The posts I’ll make for this series will have as case study a simple app. It will be about how I used features available in Xamarin Forms to produce unique UI for the app. The app’s name is :…
Hello, everyone. Xamarin Forms has been evolving quickly and a few weeks after Xamarin Forms 3.0 was announced, the version 3.1 (3.2 will soon be released as stable version) was already released. As developers we have to stay up to date with the changes made to the frameworks we use. I was looking at xamarin…
Hi guys, When building your Xamarin.Forms application there are several tips you should take into consideration to improve user experience. The Xamarin.Forms framework makes it easier to build cross platform applications, but, you can customize its functionalities for your use case. Personalizing your application, and adding additional functionalities not difficult. But for anyone new to…
