This is a short article with a solution to a problem I couldn’t find on the internet. I upgraded VS for Mac to version 17.4.5 recently, and upgraded Xcode to the appropriate version as stated in the docs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/mac-release-notes). As it happens often, I had a bad surprise after this. I tried uploading an app […]
Hey everyone! Here is a new article under my series of Quick Tips posts. What is this series of posts about? (I hope you asked yourself ☺️). Well, you know when you want to implement a functionality or do something technical that is well documented, but the documentation for that specific thing is not centralized? […]
Hello friends, today we will talk about a performance issue that does not only affect mobile apps but other types of Dotnet client applications too. That is, HTTP request performance. Making HTTP requests is something we should do cautiously because it consumes a lot of resources that are difficult to release later. This can impact […]
Hello Everyone. As a mobile dev, you might have come across a situation where you needed to add Country information in your app. As allowing the user to select a given country, or a specific region in that country. I’m sure while thinking about it, the first thing that comes to your mind is tapping […]
Hello Friends, while building your mobile app, I’m sure you’ve already come across a situation where you need your app to do some time-consuming work in the background, without interfering with the user’s experience. Such tasks might include synchronizing data, sorting data, unzipping large files, etc. Though C# gives us a way to run asynchronous […]
Hello you. I’m sure you’ve already used an app that can process URLs as it if was a web page. I’m sure you’ve come across a link that links to a page or a resource in an app, and when that app isn’t installed on your device, the link takes you to Playstore or AppStore […]
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 […]
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 […]
