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 performance
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
At some time or another, as Xamarin developers, we all encounter the need to generate an SSH key for accessing a Git repository. Whether it's a new GitHub user that an employer or client has asked us to setup (GitHub only allows one unique SSH globally, as opposed to per user) or simply switching