Our beloved Xamarin was sunset a while ago, and MAUI is now stable enough to start building production apps with it. As you may know from my blog’s history, I’ve been a long-time mobile developer, who’s worked with Xamarin, Flutter, MAUI, and I built this Xamarin.Forms chat app 5 years ago to showcase how to […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
Here is the source code for this article Creating A Skeleton Loader in Xamarin Forms First, we need to break down what it takes to build a skeleton loader, then use what Xamarin offers us to implement this control. Basically, a skeleton loader is just a view that can have different shapes (square, rectangle, circle), […]
