Hello, and Happy new year to you 🥳. In my last article, I did a deep introduction to .Net MAUI. For my first article of the year, we will have an introduction to .NET MAUI handlers. If you are a Xamarin dev, you should know about the “Renderers” architecture. Well, handlers are what replaced renderers […]
Microsoft announced more than a year ago its new framework for building cross-platform modern applications on mobile and desktop. They called it MAUI. We are not talking about the Maui beach here :-), MAUI actually stands for Multi-platform App UI. This framework is Xamarin.Forms’ evolution. This framework brings several features to make it extremely easy […]
During the MCT West Africa Bootcamp, some of my friends, experts in .NET, and Microsoft MVPs from different African countries did a round table discussion about ways in which we could increase the reach of the .NET echo system and building a .NET Community in Africa. The talk wasn’t long, but we shared interesting ideas […]
A few days ago, Microsoft announced that the Windows 11 OS will run Android apps natively with its subsystem for Android, and this got several tech communities online excited. I was definitely excited too when I thought about dumping my android emulator for good. Seriously, in my opinion, this one feature is a game-changer. At […]
Hello Friends, Last time we saw how to create make a PDF view and a thumb view for iOS and use it to open a PDF in Xamarin Forms. Now we are going to see how to do the same thing with Android. In brief, we will create a custom renderer based on Radaee PDF’s […]
Have you ever searched for a solution to open PDFs in your Xamarin Forms apps? There are a few third-party libraries available for this, but most require you to purchase a license. Of course, you can find solutions that are free, but less powerful, like this one. What most of these plugins have in common […]
Hi friends. Nearly every application nowadays talks to APIs or processes data from an internal database. These tasks are time consuming and most of the time are done in the foreground. Since they are done in the foreground, we have to inform the user that some important work is going on. The most basic way […]
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 […]
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 […]
A few friends and I hosted another event across several communities in Africa. You can find the event here. We had hundreds of attendees (Across the various meetup groups) and a prestigious guest, the one and only Maria Naggaga, introduced us to .NET Interactive, and how it leverages the power of the .Net framework and […]
