Uno Platform announced today that it now supports macOS as a target platform. This new support means that developers can use a single code base to create apps on Windows,…
Category: Xamarin
Adapting to Enterprise and B2E Xamarin Forms App Development
Enterprise or Business to Employee (B2E) mobile apps can be quite different from their B2C counterparts. B2C apps, tend to focus on a small number of screens or feed for…
Xamarin Forms Dependency Injection
Calling native platform code in your portable class library (PCL) is achievable via Dependency Injection. It’s a common question for people starting out, who are using a PCL or .NET…
Working with CarouselView in Xamarin Forms
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…
Configuring Push Notifications For Xamarin Forms
How to configure in your Xamarin Forms project the push notification for iOS and Android
New Xamarin Application Developed to Track and Manage COVID-19 in Real-time
Volunteers re-engineer cancer treatment software to monitor coronavirus pandemic using Microsoft’s Xamarin mobile framework with Azure Mobile Angel has released a new mobile application built on the Xamarin platform to…
Xamarin build error: defining a default interface method requires --min-sdk-version >= 24
I added to my project Xam.Plugins.Android.ExoPlayer and then I received this error: java/lang/Object;I)V: defining a default interface method requires –min-sdk-version >= 24 (currently 13) for interface methods: com.google.android.exoplayer2.Player$EventListener.onTimelineChanged : (Lcom/google/android/exoplayer2/Timeline;Ljava/lang/Object;I)V…
GitHub Package Registry
GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code
Add a macOS project to your existing solution
With the new version of Xamarin, we can create apps for macOS. But how can I add a macOS project to my solution? I explain step by step what we…
Get the Most Out of iOS 11 with Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin
Join Craig Dunn explains what’s new in iOS 11 and how to take advantage of the latest updates – from drag-and-drop for iPad to machine learning and more – 100%…
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.…
Enable and control iOS 11 Large Titles in Xamarin.Forms
Apple introduced with iOS 11 a new UI in particular for larger titles: if you open your email, you see at the top a large title. That sit in the…
UriBuilder in Xamarin Forms
In Xamarin Forms there is a native function called UriBuilder: it allow you to create a well-formed url. In my implementation, all parameters are in a Dictionary called parameters. Using…
Binding FormattedString for Xamarin Forms
Xamarin Forms doesn’t have a Label with a Bindable FormattedString. For example, if you want a bindable bold word in the middle of a sentence in a Label, it’s very…
Xamarin Forms Repeater View
A ListView is a kind of repeater but isn’t always what I want. It’s surprising something like this isn’t included in the framework but making your own is fairly simple.…
Xamarin, no show images in the device but only in the simulator
In my project I have some images to display. The funny thing is I can see images in the simulator but not in a real device. Simulator iPhone (real device)…
Xamarin, Android and starting a service at device boot
In my previous post called Xamarin: how to Start an Application at Device Boot in Android, I explained how you can change your Android Xamarin’s project to launch your app…
Xamarin: how to Start an Application at Device Bootup in Android
This tutorial will explain to stat an application while the Android device boot-up. For this, we need to listen to the BOOT_COMPLETED action and react to it. BOOT_COMPLETED is a…
Device name in Xamarin
Using Device Information Plugin for Xamarin and Windows, you have access to same information for a device: GenerateAppId: used to generate a unique Id for your app. Id: this is…
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…
An error occurs with MobileCenter for Xamarin iOS
I added Microsoft Mobile Center to my project after creating the app there. On MobileCenter documentation you can know the Install Identifier for your application (MobileCenter documentation is here). System.Guid…
Xamarin Forms and Google Mobile Ads for iOS: update
In my previous post I explaind how to add on your application advertising. In those days Xamarin has removed from the Component Store the component called Google Mobile Ads for…
Xamarin Forms Components
Hello guys! From today on Nuget there are 4 new components for Xamarin Forms created by me. MVVM Helpers Bindable Picker EnumBindable Picker TabControl Happy coding!
Custom editor render for Xamarin on iOS
In Xamairin the Editor component doesn’t have a border on iOS. If you want to add one in the iOS project just added the following code. using UIKit; using WordBankEasy.iOS.Renderers;…
Preserve data when deploying Xamarin.Android app
By default all your data from your previous runs is deleted when you’re deploying an Xamarin.Android app. In many cases you don’t want the data to be deleted. Visual Studio…