How 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…

It’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. …

If 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. And…

How 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. …

How 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…

Beautiful 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.com

How 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. But if we have a completely different UI for Tablets or should change it more than 60–70%, our XAML code will look like a mess ☹️…

What 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…

How to create a native Month and Year Picker and use it from Xamarin Forms — Sometimes we want to select a Date with Month, Day and a Year and we can go with global custom picker on Xamarin.Forms or in an easy way create a Native picker to makes the app more predictable and harmonious for users. But what if we want to select only…