This Xamarin how-to article shows (in my opinion) the easiest and cleanest way to implement the MVVM pattern in a DataTemplate. The example I will be using is a 'set up wizard' using a standard Xamarin.Forms CarouselView and IndicatorView. The example show how you can keep each 'page' in the setup wizard separate
Very quick Xamarin How-To this week with a simple converter. Alternating row colours in a CollectionView is quite often a design requirement and I wanted to create a simple, reusable converter to solve this. The Converter [crayon-6759f07cda925440448530/] Using the Converter in XAML [crayon-6759f07cda930015083024/]There you go, nice and simple, easy to follow
Recently I have had to navigate through Xamarin.Forms Maps for a project. After some documentation reading I found that XF Maps does not offer a lot of the customisation and functionality of the native map libraries (MapKit and Google Maps). This left me having to write some custom renderers to complete the project's requirements.
On a recent app I worked on, there was a requirement for authentication within a WebView. For this to work custom request headers had to be sent through a Xamarin.Forms WebView. This is quite standard for a lot of hybrid web applications. I found some resources on the topic, however, all were quite outdated
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
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
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