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 […]
I covered in detail how you can use the VLC media player in your Xamarin Forms application. VLC is a very powerful player, and it permits you to do a lot of awesome stuff and read more file formats than the simple native player of any platform. It is cross-platform and open source. You can […]
Hi friends welcome back for another post. Today we will talk about playing media in our Xamarin Forms apps. We won’t be using Xamarin Community Toolkit’s media element. Instead, we will use a VLC media player in Xamarin Forms. Why? because VLC media player can be an awesome alternative to the native media players available […]
Hello Friends, have you ever wanted to download a file from an API to your user’s phone in the background? You might have faced a situation where you want to let your users download very large files from your server. And you want to download these sorts of files in the background. You might have […]
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 […]
Hello friends, here is my second post about social auth with Xamarin Forms and ASP.net core. The previous method, though functional is kind of old and less recommended than this new approach. A few months ago, a new feature was added to Xamarin Essentials, permitting us to easily implement authentication with a back-end API (not […]
