Android
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
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
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