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 using System; using System.Globalization; using System.Linq; using Xamarin.Forms; namespace XhtCollectionViewAlternatingRowColor.Converters { public class IndexToColorConverter : IValueConverter { public Color
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 I found some resources on the topic, however, all were quite outdated
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 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
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 those