Xamarin.Forms code runs on multiple platforms – each of which has its own filesystem. This means that reading and writing files is most easily done using the native file APIs…
Category: Universal Windows App
Xamarin Forms: TranslateY (or other properties) for platform
Sometimes you need to change a value for a specific platform and this value is a Double, for example. I spent a couple of minutes to find a working code.…
Xamarin forms, UWP Windows 10 App, TitleBar and Status bar customization
Customize the title bar of your Universal App for Windows 10 is quite easy, but you need to write different code for PC and Mobile. The class that allows you…
Convert Hex Color Code to Brush/SolidColorBrush in XAML App
To set the background color of an object in .NET XAML, you will need to set the Brush object type. To create a Brush object from a hexadecimal color code,…
How do I get a Unique Identifier for a Device within Windows 10 Universal?
If you google a bit about this problem, you can’t find a right solution because all people are speaking about Hardware Token. Unfortunately this functionality doesn’t exists for Universal Windows…
UWA: This application can only run in the context of an AppContainer
Run it from VS (with or without debugging). This will actually install unpackaged version of your app, so you will see it in the start screen. Create a package to…
Universal Windows app samples
On GitHub Microsoft have published a lot of examples for Universal Apps: the link is https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-universal-samples This repo contains the samples that demonstrate the API usage patterns for the Universal…