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Aug 22, 2022

Improving MAUI & Xamarin Code Quality with Pre Git Commit Linting

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…

Maui

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Improving MAUI & Xamarin Code Quality with Pre Git Commit Linting
Improving MAUI & Xamarin Code Quality with Pre Git Commit Linting
Maui

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Mar 31, 2022

Getting started with Xamarin.Native vs Xamarin.Forms/MAUI for iOS & Android

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…

Xamarin

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Getting started: Xamarin.Native vs Xamarin.Forms/MAUI for iOS & Android
Getting started: Xamarin.Native vs Xamarin.Forms/MAUI for iOS & Android
Xamarin

3 min read


Published in ITNEXT

·Feb 24, 2022

Convert Country Name To Flag Emoji in C# & the .NET ecosystem

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…

IOS

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Convert Country Name To Flag Emoji in C# & the .NET ecosystem
Convert Country Name To Flag Emoji in C# & the .NET ecosystem
IOS

2 min read


Jan 25, 2022

Simple Onboarding or Walkthrough Pages in Xamarin iOS & Android

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

Xamarin

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Simple Onboarding or Walkthrough Pages in Xamarin iOS & Android
Simple Onboarding or Walkthrough Pages in Xamarin iOS & Android
Xamarin

3 min read


Dec 23, 2021

Using SVG files as App Icons in iOS & Android Xamarin apps

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…

Xamarin

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Using SVG files as your App Icon in your iOS & Android Xamarin apps
Using SVG files as your App Icon in your iOS & Android Xamarin apps
Xamarin

5 min read


Aug 23, 2021

Migrating & Updating old Xamarin Native MvvmCross projects

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…

Xamarin

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Migrating & Updating an old Xamarin Native MvvmCross project
Migrating & Updating an old Xamarin Native MvvmCross project
Xamarin

10 min read


Jul 1, 2021

Changes to your Android code needed to download the app on Windows 11 through the Amazon App Store

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. …

Technology

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Changes to your Android code needed to download the app on Windows 11 through the Amazon App Store
Changes to your Android code needed to download the app on Windows 11 through the Amazon App Store
Technology

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Published in Dev Genius

·May 6, 2021

Build Xamarin apps with VS Code to M1 Macs, iPhones & Android

You don’t need to open an IDE, start building apps in the terminal — 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…

IOS

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Build Xamarin apps with VS Code to M1 Macs, iPhones & Android
Build Xamarin apps with VS Code to M1 Macs, iPhones & Android
IOS

4 min read


Apr 12, 2021

Calling methods in your View from your ViewModel using Action-Invokes

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…

Csharp

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Calling methods in your View from your ViewModel using Action-Invokes
Calling methods in your View from your ViewModel using Action-Invokes
Csharp

3 min read


Mar 5, 2021

WiFi Build & Debug on Xamarin is officially here with Android 11

No more cables on your tables — Wireless build and debug for Android is a feature mobile developers have been waiting for years, especially since iOS enabled wireless debugging years ago. From Android 11, the process has been simplified and you can finally get rid of wired build and debugging! There’s a few steps involved, but luckily…

Xamarin

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Wireless Build & Debug with Android on Xamarin is officially here!
Wireless Build & Debug with Android on Xamarin is officially here!
Xamarin

2 min read

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