Blazor & Xamarin: Code Sharing For Everyone!
Server-side Blazor is almost here! How mach can Xamarin Code Share with the Web?? Find out here!
Beautiful Xamarin.Forms XAML Layouts with the Golden Ratio
XAML has a very easy way of implementing the golden ratio and maintaining the correct ratio, no matter the device screen size. This blog shows four different XAML implementations of the golden ratio for a phone-sized display.
Deliver Your Xamarin App On-Time and On-Budget PART 3
Twenty-five tips and tricks for delivering Enterprise Xamarin cross platform software projects.
Tip #10-25 – Optimization
Deliver Your Xamarin App On-Time and On-Budget PART 2
Twenty-five tips and tricks for delivering Enterprise Xamarin cross platform software projects.
Tip #5-9 – Cultivate your Knowledge
Deliver Your Xamarin App On-Time and On-Budget PART 1
Recently, I gave a talk at the Xamarin Developer Summit that revolved specifically around 25 tip and tricks to reduce delivery risk for a Xamarin project.
Tip #1-4 – Communication Cadence
Size Matters: JSON vs. YAML and System.IO.Compression vs. DotNetZip
This post contains information about reducing the size of serialized object graphs. It compares using JSON and YAML output formats. Newtonsoft Json.NET YamlDotNet This post also highlights the output file size difference between using classes in the System.IO.Compression namespace versus the DotNetZip NuGet package. System.IO.Compression DotNetZip Straight to the Point Simplistic testing results indicate that …
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Who is Presenting at the Xamarin Developer Summit? MSCTek!
Paul Schroeder and Robin Schroeder are excited to have the opportunity to present two compelling talks at the Xamarin Developer Summit in Houston in July 2019. Join Us! More Details: XamarinDeveloperSummit.com
Using What3Words in Xamarin.Forms
What3Words is a project that has digitally mapped the earth into 3 meter x 3 meter squares. Each square is identified by three random words. Basically giving an ‘address’ to everywhere on earth. You can use the user’s current What3Words address in your Xamarin.Forms app. Here’s how…
Testing AppCenter Crash Reporting in Xamarin
Wiring up Analytics and Crash Reporting is one of the very first things you should do when building out a Xamarin.Forms app. Microsoft AppCenter offers a free service to collect Diagnostics and Analytics.
Using FontAwesome in Xamarin.Forms
Font Awesome 5 is a really great way to add vector icons to your Xamarin.Forms app. Using a graphic font instead of icon images saves a lot of time and effort. Font-based icon sets can be colored and sized quickly without having to update a bunch of image icons in each of your platform projects. This post goes through the steps of getting Font Awesome working in a Xamarin.Forms cross platform app.