Published in Nerd For Tech·Jul 29Background Work in Xamarin.Forms. Part #2 — Xamarin.iOSThis time we will cover possible solutions to run something in Background for iOS Devices. We will touch on location updates and region monitoring because it’s the most common case. — Hello Folks 👋!!! As mentioned in the sub-title we will touch on location updates and region monitoring because it’s a most common cases, but other updates like Background Push notifications, Audio or AirPlay will not be covered because it’s quite specific for their usage and better for the device on…Xamarin Forms6 min read
Published in Nerd For Tech·Apr 19Background Work in Xamarin.Forms. Part #1 — Xamarin.AndroidWhat should we select if we need to run some work in the background? Should it be a Worker, Service or simple Task Run from .Net? Let’s find out! — Xamarin5 min read
Published in Nerd For Tech·Jan 11JavaScript to Xamarin.Forms Two Way Communication SetupHow to set up communication between WebView JavaScript and Xamarin.Forms Application — Hello Folks 👋!!! Before switching this year to MAUI, let’s summarise not a typical case — communication with JavaScript through WebView. This blog post will show you how to set up JS to XF and XF to JS Commands for Android and iOS. For our example, we will send some…Xamarin2 min read
Published in Nerd For Tech·Dec 31, 2021Xamarin.Forms and Draggable View. The New Year TaleIt’s New Year Tale about how to make Draggable View in Xamarin.Forms Application. — Once upon a time, a new requirement arrived in Fairy-tale land. “We need to create Draggable Button inside inner area of some control”, — it says. …Xamarin Forms3 min read
Published in Nerd For Tech·Dec 5, 2021Local Deploy to Multiple Emulators and Simulators with CakeIf you are looking for an easy way to test Xamarin.Forms or MAUI Application in a couple of Android Emulators and iOS Simulators at the same time — use Cake Script to do all routine work 🙃 😉 — Hi Folks!!! 🤪 Long story short here is a link to the full script at GitHub Gist. And my story begins — a year ago I saw a lovely speech from Damian, and just thought that it's pretty interesting to make scripts not in, instead of Bash and PowerShell. …Xamarin Forms4 min read
Published in Nerd For Tech·Oct 24, 2021Animated Splash Screen with Magic GradientsHow make Splash Screen with animated Magic Gradients? Pros and Cons of these Splash Screens. What can go wrong here? — Hi folks, all we know is that we can use images as splash-screen. Also, some of you know what we might use LottieAnimationView as an animated splash screen. …Xamarin4 min read
Sep 20, 2021Design beautiful gradients — practical guide in Xamarin.Forms with Magic GradientsHow to implement beautiful gradients in #Xamarin.Forms with #MagicGradients NuGet package. — Hi folks. A week ago Michal Malewicz post quite an informative video about the easiest way of defining beautiful gradients in Figma. Today I would like you to show the practical guide to make it in Xamarin.Forms with Magic Gradients NuGet package. But before we begin — please check out…Xamarin4 min read
Published in Nerd For Tech·Apr 4, 2021Xamarin.Forms Country Picker with Rg.Plugins.PopupBeautiful Country Picker for any Xamarin.Forms application with Rg.Plugins.Popup NuGet and online SVG Flags — Hi Folks 😛. Today I would like to share with you a beautiful country picker implementation that you can integrate into any Xamarin.Forms application. All you need is to copy a couple of folders from the GitHub repo and just enjoy or customize according to your project requirements. bbenetskyy/XamarinCountryPicker All available countries. Not hardcoded - all get generic. SVG for each country from…github.comXamarin5 min read
Jan 29, 2021MvvmCross & Separate Tablet UIHow to make separate View’s for Tablet, Phones, Desktops and other device families — Hi folks, it’s so easy with Xamarin.Forms check TargetIdiom 🤩 with Device.Idiom and make checks right in your XAML Code or C# Code Behind. …Xamarin3 min read
Dec 17, 2020Three ways to Fix broken Icon Font in Xamarin AppWhat to do when suddenly your Icon Font is displayed incorrectly? Here we will get ways to fix that with couple simple steps. — Time to time, when you run your app in Android, iOS or even in UWP in one of the platform or all at the same time you can get unexpected undefined icons or binding Path visible instead of the icon itself. When it can happen? — Here is all pretty…Xamarin4 min read
