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 […]
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 […]
Our favorite host in the entire world, James Montemagno had me on the Xamarin Show. I was really happy to appear on the Xamarin Show. During this Xamarin show, in particular, I talked about creating code snippets for Xamarin Forms. I created a few snippets to make any Xamarin Dev’s work a lot easier. This […]
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 […]
Hello friends, here is a quick post under my series of Xamarin Forms tips where I share with you tips and tricks which make you a better Xamarin Forms developer. Today we are going to look at how to leverage iOS’ safe area to our advantage. In addition to what Xamarin Forms offers by default […]
Hi friends, welcome to another blog post about my favorite Framework. Today we will dive into less technical stuff. We will talk about how Xamarin Forms evolved. How Xamarin Forms moved away from its reputation of a framework used to build only prototype applications to a robust cross platform framework which is now used to […]
Hello friends, today we will have an introduction to my favorite MVVM framework ReactiveUI. I wrote an article about reactiveui a while ago you can find it here. But that article is outdated, since the framework has evolved. The software development world grows so fast and this article can be seen as my effort to […]
Hi friends, here we are again, my first blog post in 2020. Today we will talk about how to navigate to a page and wait results. This can be really useful by making our code easier to read, as compared to using Xamarin Forms’ Messaging Center each time a page needs to send back results […]
Hi friends. Nowadays, mobile applications are rarely standalone. They most often require a back-end with which they communicate. This back-end provides a means of storing, retrieving and processing data from any device which the app runs on. Taking this into consideration, it is obvious you will want to secure this data. This can be done […]
Hello friends, Xamarin Forms is continuously getting better and it comes with a lot of improvements in every new release. Be it in performance aspects or the addition of new controls, we Xamarin Forms developers have several brand new features. Last year I wrote an article about the new paradigm (Shell) for building apps with […]
