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.NET Conf recap

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

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Avatar Groups

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

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Xamarin Tools 2021

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

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Xamarin.Forms UI Challenges - Pizza Shop

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.

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Xamarin.Forms UI Challenges - RottenUI

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

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Xamarin.Forms UI Challenges - Unzone

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

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Xamarin.Forms UI Challenges - Day vs Night

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

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Xamarin.Forms UI Challenges - Art Auction

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

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Microsoft //Build/ Recap for Xamarin Developers

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

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Simple Animation with Xamarin.Forms

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

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Unit Testing Tips

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

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FastScroll and SectionIndexer in Xamarin.Forms ListView

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

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Xamarin Tools and Resources

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

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Xamarin.Forms Layout Challenges – Great Places

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

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Xamarin.Forms Layout Challenges – Timeline

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

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Xamarin.Forms Layout Challenges – Social Network App

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

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Staying Up To Date with Xamarin Development

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

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 11 May 2016

More fantastic links from around the community! Xamarin.Forms Jason Smith’s Xamarin Forms Performance Tips – Jason Smith’s Xamarin Forms Performance Tips Scaffolding Xamarin.Forms Pages with DataPages | Xamarin Blog – An introduction to Xamarin.Forms

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 6 January 2016

Happy New Year! here are links from the community to start your New Year. Xamarin.Forms Specify the default value for a dependency property – Geoffrey Huntley shows how to specify a default value

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 29 December 2015

Merry Christmas Xamarin Peeps!… Here is a weekly dump of Xamarin links from around the inter-webs. Xamarin.Forms Xamarin Forms : Behaviors – Mostefaoui Anas introduces behaviors in Xamarin Forms Components and Tools Make

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 22 December 2015

Components and Tools Xamarin Studio Tip: Break on all exceptions – Stefan’s Developer Blog – A nice little tip on how to break on all exceptions in Xamarin Studio from Stefan Upgrading to

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Emacs key mappings for Xamarin Studio on Mac

One of the great things about my job instructing at Xamarin is the diverse set of questions I get exposure to via all the people who attend Xamarin University. For example, just the

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 13 June 2015

What happened in the Xamarin Community last week? Xamarin.Forms </p> Advanced Xamarin Forms Techniques for flexible and performant cross platform apps – Part 3 3rd part in a series on applying advanced techniques

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 2 Mar 2015

What happened in the Xamarin Community last week? Xamarin Forms Responding to Orientation Changes in Xamarin Forms Jeff Prosise shows a way of handling orientation changes in Xamarin.Forms given the lack of Orientation

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Common UI Patterns in Xamarin Forms – Part 2 – Tabbed Pages

Tabbed Pages are a common pattern that regular mobile App users are familiar with. At it’s simplest it is just a collection of pages tied together by a toolbar menu at the top or

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 23 Feb 2015

What happened in the Xamarin Community last week? Xamarin.Forms Behaviors for Xamarin Forms v2.0 Version 2.0 of my behavior implementation for Xamarin Forms Navigation Service for Cross Platform Page/View Navigation from View Model

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Common UI Patterns in Xamarin.Forms Part 1 – Springboards

Introduction This is the first post in a series covering Common UI Patterns in Xamarin.Forms. This post will walk through creating one of the most common UI Navigation Patterns, namely the Springboard (sometimes called

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 16 Feb 2015

What happened in the Xamarin community last week? Xamarin.Forms Platform Specific Styling with Xamarin Forms Customising styling in Xamarin.Forms based on platform Refactoring SignalR Feedback for Cross Platform with AutoFac and CommonServiceLocator for

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Common UI Patterns in Xamarin.Forms – Part 0

This is the start of a blog mini series about implementing Common UI Patterns in Xamarin.Forms. Xamarin.Forms is an incredibly powerful platform to build cross platform mobile apps. I believe that unlike other

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 9 Feb 2015

What happened in the Xamarin community last week? Xamarin.Forms Cross-Platform – Share UI Code Across Mobile Platforms with Xamarin.Forms “The Main Man” Jason Smith shows how to share code across multiple platforms Solving

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Xamarin Certification Exam Study Guide

Are you studying for the Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer exam?  It’s a pretty daunting exam, there is just such a large amount of material covered.  So I thought I’d share my experiences and

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 2 Feb 2015

What happened in the Xamarin community during the last week? Xamarin.Forms Gesture Recognizers with Xamarin.Forms Rob Gibbens talks about adding Gesture Recognizers with Xamarin.Forms End to End Mvvm with Xamarin Rob Gibbens walks

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Exploring Xamarin.Forms 1.3: Properties Dictionary

Xamarin.Forms 1.3 includes a tidy little way to do simple state persistence between app restarts and when suspending/resuming.  Particularly useful if you want to take the user back to their location if the application

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Xamarin.Forms Productivity Tools

There are lots of great extensions out there to help you out with your Xamarin.Forms development.  Here are some of my favourites. Mobile Essentials Resharper now has intellisense for XAML Xamarin Forms, but

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Xamarin Link Roundup 7 Jul 2014

News Xamarin.Forms.Labs Version 1.1.0 Released Xamarin on Film: @dotnetConf & FlashCast (James Montemagno) – Xamarin was all over the dontNetConf conference with some great training videos. Also check out [Scott Hanselman’s post](http://www.hanselman.com/blog/catchuponallthevideosfromdotnetconfspring2014.aspx “”).</ul>

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Xamarin, iBeacons and Geofencing – Some Resources

For an upcoming geekend (a weekend hackfest) we are looking at spending some time digging into iBeacon and Geofencing technologies.  I was going to email some of these resources I have found to

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Xamarin and iOS – Moving to iOS 7 and Xcode 5

Apple has now decreed that all apps submitted to the store must be built on XCode5 and iOS7. And so it shall be… So I’ve started building our Xamarin iPhone project against said

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Xamarin and Android – Specific Solutions to Specific Problems #4

  It’s been a while but I’m finally back with another one of my recent discoveries while working with Xamarin and Android. We are at the pointy end of our project so it

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Xamarin and Android – Specific Solutions to Specific Problems #3

Welcome to another installment in my series exploring the specific problems that nearly beat me this week. I write these on Sunday night after a huge week of balancing my work and fatherly

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Xamarin and Android – Specific Solutions to Specific Problems #2

Welcome to the second post in my Specific Solutions to Specific Problems series. Hopefully somebody is getting some benefit out of these but even if nobody is reading it, the process is pretty

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Xamarin and Android – Specific Solutions to Specific Problems #1

At our company, I am the soul that has been tasked with doing our Android development. We have chosen to use Xamarin for this and as I race up the learning curve, I

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Xamarin and Resource.Designer.cs

I am doing a lot of development using Xamarin for Android and while most of the time it works really well, there are a few circumstances where it acts a little weirdly. The

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 24 Aug 2014

As usual, another Link Roundup of Xamarin / Mobile related links collected over the last week or so. Don’t forget if you have seen something cool that should be on the list, email

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 15 Aug 2013

News and Events Gartner Recognizes Xamarin as Mobile Visionary –  Nat Friedman Azure Notification Hubs released (broadcast push for Windows 8, Windows Phone, iOS and Android) – Scott Guthrie Xamarin iOS Designer and Storyboards

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 6 Aug 2013

News Introducing the Google Play Services Component for Xamarin.Android Frameworks PlayScript is an open source Adobe ActionScript compatible compiler and Flash compatible runtime that runs in the Mono .NET environment, targeting mobile devices

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 28 July 2013

It’s been a big week in Xamarin world. So many fantastic links flying around the interwebs.  Here’s a selection of things I’ve seen this week that took my fancy. The News Major upgrades

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From Zero to Xamarin – Part 3 – First week in the trenches

We finished up our first week of  “real” coding using Xamarin.  By real I mean, actually working on (what we hope will be) production code.  So I thought I’d post up some thoughts

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Xamarin Link Roundup – 22 July 2013

News The first list of Xamarin MVPs were announced. Xamarin recieved a bunch of cash in a second round of funding. Looks like the beers are on Xamarin! Xamarin releases two new themes that are

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From Zero To Xamarin – Part 2 – Learning To Fly

Learning to fly by yourself can be hard (as the picture below illustrates). There is a serious risk the guy above is going to faceplant pretty hard. I don’t want our project to

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From Zero to Xamarin – Part 1 – First contact

In order to evaluate Xamarin as a potential platform for developing our mobile app, myself and a couple of co-workers downloaded and installed the free trial edition at various points in time. A

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From Zero to Xamarin – Part 0 – A New Hope

I’m working on a fantastic project at work at the moment.  It’s 51% awesome and 49% scary as hell. It’s awesome because it’s an innovative mobile project across all the major platforms and

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