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, 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 […]
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 But that article is outdated, since the framework has evolved.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 […]
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 […]
When displaying textual information to your user, you want it to be well displayed with good font size, appropriate style, text color… But you also want the user to edit this information with minimum efforts. You can build a custom control in Xamarin Forms for this purpose. Let’s say you have a page in your […]
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 […]
Hello friends, Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Preview was made available for some time already, and it has several features which I’m excited about. These features where announced months ago, but the one which caught my attention was the Xamarin.Forms Shell. This feature is not yet available on the UWP platform as I’m writing this blog post today. […]