By Doumer
While building Xamarin Forms applications there are several things which 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 the
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
By Doumer
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 But that article is outdated, since the framework has evolved.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
It is well known that good user interfaces should not be crowded with a lot of information. A page in a mobile app should not have too many visual elements displayed at the same time. If it does, they should at least be displayed in an appropriate way, or at the user’s will. Today we
We love everything that makes the process of building beautiful applications easier. Using font Icons in Xamarin Forms apps makes this easier. Having to skip the process of creating and adding manually every icon for our application is just awesome. Font Icons are a great tool which we can leverage for this purpose. Several months
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
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