• Xamarin , Xamarin.Android ,
• Tags: DownloadManager, Xamarin.Android
• 25 Jul

Hello Friends, A few weeks ago we talk about downloading files bytes by bytes in Xamarin iOS. That post explained how to use NSUrl to download large files, monitor the download’s progress, and a few more interesting things. Today, we will switch from iOS to Android, and see how to properly download files of all

• .Net , Xamarin , Xamarin Forms Tips and Tricks , Xamarin.Forms ,
• 30 Jun

Hey friends, today we will take a quick look at a little, but annoying problem we still face in Xamarin Forms. I guess you might have come across this error message “[0:] ImageLoaderSourceHandler: Could not retrieve image or image data was invalid: Uri:“. This error is quite simple to identify. Here is how it manifests

• Uncategorized ,
• 16 May

Hi friends welcome back for another post. Today we will talk about playing media in our Xamarin Forms apps. We won’t be using Xamarin Community Toolkit’s media element. Instead, we will use a VLC media player in Xamarin Forms. Why? because VLC media player can be an awesome alternative to the native media players available

• .Net , Xamarin , Xamarin.iOS ,
• 21 Apr

Hello Friends, have you ever wanted to download a file from an API to your user’s phone in the background? You might have faced a situation where the file you are trying to download is not present on the server hosting your back-end, but instead, the file’s content is streamed bytes by bytes “Data Chunks”

• .Net , .Net Core , Asp.net core , Xamarin , Xamarin Forms Tips and Tricks , Xamarin.Forms ,
• 25 Jan

Hello friends, what will a good mobile app be like without push notifications nowadays? No matter if your app is a chat app, a ride-sharing app, or a simple news app, you surely want to keep your users engaged, and let them come back to your app very often. Push notifications have become indispensable if

• Uncategorized ,
• 08 Nov

Hello friends, here is my second post about social auth with Xamarin Forms and ASP.net core. The previous method, though functional is kind of old and less recommended than this new approach. A few months ago, a new feature was added to Xamarin Essentials, permitting us to easily implement authentication with a back-end API (not

• .Net Core , Asp.net core , C# ,
• Tags: asp.net core, QuickTips
• 31 Jul

Hello friends, today we will solve a little problem which a few people might encounter while building APIs in ASP.net core. This will be a very short post, since we will go straight to the point with the solution. We will see how to in ASP.net core upload files and json data for each file

• .Net , C# , Xamarin , Xamarin.Forms ,
• 21 Jun

While building Xamarin Forms applications there are several things that you find yourself repeating again and again. These might include creating value converters, markup extensions e.t.c. These repetitions could be made a lot easier using Xamarin Forms Snippets. And that is what we are covering today. This article is part of my contribution to Xamarin

• .Net Core , Asp.net core , microservices , Rabbitmq ,
• Tags: asp.net core, microservices, rabbitmq
• 17 Jun

When building micro-services it is very important to take into consideration which messaging mechanism you use. There are several ways in which micro-services communicate using different messaging protocols. Today we will focus on the AMQP messaging protocol with rabbitmq and asp.net core. What is Rabbitmq ? Rabbitmq is a messaging system that permits your applications

• .Net Core , Asp.net core ,
• 03 Jun

Hi friends, have you ever wanted to make post requests while choosing to pass a body or not ?. Some times you may want more flexibility in your post requests. You built a REST API and you want the user of the API to be free to pass a null value as the body of