A little while ago I had to include a type of gradient effect I hadn't heard of before, a gradient with an inset. Essentially this meant having the gradient stay a solid colour for say 20% of it and then fade to almost nothing at the end. The designers point of this was to
For the majority of the apps I've worked on, there's been a requirement to store some sort of data in files. Whether it's images from the camera or gallery, a database or just log files it seems to come up more often than not. When you're working in the simulator/emulator environment during development it's
At some time or another, we need to track down performance issues. It's inevitable if you develop software for long enough, and especially in mobile development where there's such a vast range of devices that need to be supported. A tool I picked up and have adapted to suit my requirements, is Chris Pietschmann's
Sometimes, although suited to a very wide range of UI requirements, a ListView introduces more complexity than required, or simply doesn't suit the purpose you're trying to achieve. For example, I recently worked on a project that required a very specific looking UI similar to a "card view" on the main landing screen that a
When I started doing the majority of my Xamarin development work on macOS rather than Windows, there was one thing that drove me insane: The lack of the NuGet package manager that's been a staple of Visual Studio for years. It was almost enough to make me switch back. However, the performance gains of not
There's a little feature of Visual Studio (Windows and macOS) that I stumbled upon years ago, that seems to shock a lot of developers I still meet today. It's incredibly simple and not super exciting, but it might save you a small amount of time a lot of the time so I thought I'd take