Xamarin.Forms lightweight bottom sheet modal

Bottom sheets are becoming increasingly more popular in modern apps including Facebook, Instagram and Microsoft Teams.  A bottom sheet comes in three main forms including: Standard - the sheet remains visible while users can interact with the rest of the content on the screen. Modal - the sheet must be dismissed to interact with

By |2021-08-06T13:00:20+10:00July 30th, 2021|Categories: UI, Xamarin.Forms|Tags: , |3 Comments

Keeping your UI fast by using this HTTP trick to check if a remote resource exists

Frequently I find a requirement in mobile projects is to consume remote resources, whether it's images, video, audio etc, the requirement comes up fairly frequently. A common problem I found myself hitting was that when you're trying to do this with a backend or customisable content that relies on a URL is that sometimes

Migrating to Android X: Another Attempt

Due to the expanding number of packages that require Android X (namely Xamarin.Forms 5) it is essential that you can get an old project compiling and running on Android X.  This can come as quite a challenge especially to massive projects that are quite old.  Anyone who has tried to use the built in

By |2021-07-01T15:29:16+10:00July 1st, 2021|Categories: Android, Xamarin, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Forms|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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