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
Even though Apple have extended the deadline to remove UIWebView's from apps until December, the requirement to update things is still there and I'm finding a lot of clients wanting to get ahead of things and move on. On several apps I work with there is HTML content within the app that's maintained by non-technical
Even with iOS 13 having been out for quite a while now and Xamarin.Forms 4.5+ bringing a lot of improvements and fixes, I still find myself having to customise things for different projects (usually for the same reason as some of my other other posts: Graphic Designers and marketing people 😂). One thing that was
Following on from my last post about iOS 13, I've since had the need to update various apps that have a segmented control. I've been using Alexander Reyes cool control Segmented Control Plugin for Xamarin.Forms (I believe there are a few others out there as well) to get keep everything nicely in XAML and working
With the official release of iOS 13, I've found that as I move some of the apps I work on up to targeting this that various UI components don't work as they used to. So far, this isn't nearly as much of an issue as the transition from iOS 6 to iOS 7 (for
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
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