Using husky & lint-staged to clean C# code commits & make it prettier — This tutorial, based on John’s article, shows how easy it is to use tools common to other frameworks, to enforce coding standards across all developers on a MAUI/Xamarin mobile app project. Nobody likes to be nitpicked in their PR reviews, especially on little things like “6 unnecessary line breaks”, or…

Part 1: 101 Tutorial on the art of native Xamarin.iOS & Xamarin.Android — Xamarin Native was created around a decade ago as a revolutionary way to create iOS & Android apps using just the C# language alongside the native Android XML layouts & iOS drag and drop Storyboards. It blew up the scene as people didn’t need to touch Java or Objective-C in…

Use the same solution for CSharp Console, .NET Core, Blazor, or Xamarin iOS & Android apps — Let’s improve the User Experience of our apps today by showing flag emojis instead of the plain old country names or country codes. Using emojis over country image files significantly improves performance and dev efficiency. It is surprisingly easy and safe to implement in your applications. Using System.Globalization and System.Linq…

Improve UX using Free Intro, Tutorial, or Getting Started Screens —

Using ResizetizerNT to generate all the tedious Xcassets, PNGs & XMLs files, including adaptive and round icons — We all love the ResizetizerNT library that allows you to use SVG files as images in the app, but wouldn’t it be amazing if could also automatically generated all the needed files for iOS & Android app icons in all the right locations during build time, including the Android adaptive…

6 Steps taken to perform the migration, and some hindsight — Xamarin Native was extremely popular as a cross platform solution, and MVVMCross the most popular framework used with it, primarily due to it’s reliability and robust capabilities. Fortunately, Xamarin Native and MVVMCross both get frequent updates, but most companies don’t regularly update their apps or app frameworks because they didn’t…

Easy steps for Android apps built in native (Java/Kotlin) and cross-platform (Xamarin/ReactNative/Flutter) code bases — As Miguel De Icaza teased and then revealed on his Twitter, Windows 11 will allow users to install Android apps through the Amazon App Store. …

No IDE, start building apps in the terminal! Updated for 2023 — There have been numerous questions on different forums, of developers asking how to build Xamarin Apps using the terminal/CLI. The primary software/program used for Xamarin cross platform development is Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Visual Studio is classified as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that is used to build Xamarin apps. So…

Executing ViewModel methods from Xamarin Forms Pages is easy, but how can Page methods be called inside ViewModels? — In Xamarin Forms, if you bind ViewModel Commands to Page Buttons, all of the logic from the button click action takes place in the ViewModel. The problem is that the ViewModel doesn’t have access to the Xamarin Forms controls, and so it’s difficult to access functions of Views from your…