• .Net , MVVM , Reactiveui , Xamarin , Xamarin.Forms ,
• Tags: MVVM, reactiveui, Xamarin.Forms
• 17 Feb

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 But that article is outdated, since the framework has evolved.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

• .Net , C# , Xamarin , Xamarin.Forms ,
• Tags: .Net, C#, Tasks, Xamarin Forms Navigation, Xamarin.Forms
• 15 Jan

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

• .Net , .Net Core , Asp.net core , Authentication , C# , REST API , Xamarin , Xamarin.Forms ,
• 12 Dec

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

• .Net , C# , Xamarin , Xamarin.Forms ,
• Tags: collection view, Infinite scroll, Xamarin.Forms
• 10 Nov

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

• .Net , C# ,
• 13 Oct

Hey Friends, today I’ll make a short blog post brief and straight to the point. Window’s firewall is basically a network security system which makes sure incoming and outgoing traffic on your computer is safe. As software developers we might face situations were by, accessing the windows firewall is required by our software. Most often

• .Net , C# , Xamarin , Xamarin.Forms ,
• Tags: Accordion, CustomControls, Xamarin.Forms
• 06 Oct

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

• Electron , Javascript , MacOS ,
• Tags: chrome, electron, javascript, macOS, soundflower
• 28 Sep

Building desktop applications used to be tedious in the past. With each platform having its own programming language, and a different way of doing things. Windows, Mac, Linux… We used to have java with “Swing” which was great and cross platform, but building apps with this was not really fast. Then JavaFX came which was

• Xamarin , Xamarin.Forms ,
• Tags: Bootstrap Icons, Font Icons, Material Icons
• 14 Jul

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

• .Net , Bot Framework , Bot Framework V4 , Bots , C# ,
• Tags: BotframeworkV4, Bots
• 17 Jun

When hearing the term “chat bot”, surely most people think about social media bots, QnA Bots e.t.c. But bots can serve different purposes. They can be used to channel messages, or automate certain tasks. These functionalities which diverge from the idea most people have of chat bots require certain specific features which are not available

• .Net , Bot Framework , Bot Framework V4 , C# ,
• Tags: Bot Framework, BotframeworkV4, C#, Proactive Bot, Proactive Message Bot
• 12 May

Hello friends, today we will talk about something different (something that has nothing to do with mobile or desktop apps). We will build a simple proactive message bot. If you have been using Microsoft’s Botframework, you must have noticed the shift from the V3 to the V4 version and all the changes that came along.