Kym Phillpotts

.NET MAUI gives you a lot of flexibility in how you create your applications. Not only can you target multiple different Operating System platforms (like iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, etc.), you can also

There have been a tonne of announcements at .NET Conf 2021 including .NET 6, C# 10, Visual Studio 2022, and MAUI Preview 10. This post is a recap of the most important parts

Overlapping avatar badges are an effective way to show a collection of people, especially where space is at a premium. In this article we look at how to create this UI in Xamarin.Forms

Choosing the right tools and resources can make all the difference in being a productive and effective developer. So, what are all the tools and libraries you should be using to build your

Pizza is like the entire food pyramid. And This Xamarin UI Challenge, like our friend the pizza, has lots of delicious ingredients including animations, transitions, custom buttons, fonts and a sprinkle of SkiaSharp.

This UI Challenge is all about composing overlapping elements in Xamarin.Forms. Overlapping elements is one of the subtle elements that can enhance a design and make it pop. The Design This is a

Well thought out animations can help your applications come to life through having better user experience and a sense of joy. This Xamarin.Forms UI Challenge illustrates how simple it can be to add

I’ve had a couple of people ask me for my Visual Studio 2019 theme that I use when live streaming, so I thought I’d just blog it out as a reference for myself

Sometimes when developing Xamarin.Forms user interfaces you get to a point where you just need to handle the drawing yourself, and for that SkiaSharp is invaluable. And that’s one of the core pieces

It’s time for another Xamarin.Forms UI Challenge! This time we are going to see how we can reproduce a design I found over at Dribbble by Alex Pesenka. Let’s break it down The

Have you ever wanted to record or live stream your meetup? It’s not as hard as you might think. In this post, we will go through how we stream the Melbourne Xamarin Meetup

I presented a session on all the imprortant stuff from Microsoft //Build/ for Xamarin Developers at the Melbourne Xamarin User Group yesterday. Just sharing out the links from the session. The slides are

Those of you know me (or have visited my blog) know that I love playing around with Xamarin.Forms Layouts.   Recently, Matt Soucoup was on the Xamarin Show talking about Animations. He showed

I’ve been writing a few unit tests recently. I actually like writing unit tests, I find something very cathartic about seeing those little green ticks show up.  However, one thing that can make

Those of you who have played around with ListViews in Xamarin.Android are probably familiar with the FastScroll and SectionIndexer features.  They essentially make it really easy for users to navigate long lists by

As software developers we often use a scary number of Tools and Utilities to get our jobs done. Whenever you learn a new platform you also need to work out the “tools of

When your app is all about the images, sometimes you want your images to be hero of the UI.  That’s what this weeks Xamarin.Forms Layout Challenge is all about.    Normally I prefer

A layout I’m seeing more and more these days is a timeline of activities.  This is useful for things like transportation schedules or class times.  So let’s put together a simple layout for

Xamarin.Forms is a crazy productive framework for building cross platform apps. However, straight out of the box you might find your User Interfaces are a bit bland. A good understanding of the layout

Xamarin development is booming and as with any great technology, things change fast and you’ll want to keep up to date with the latest news and releases. Xamarin has such a wonderful, thriving