Anyone familiar with my ramblings will be aware that I mostly develop in C# using a mixture of Xamarin and .NET Core depending on what I’m building. Earlier this year I took the decision that I’d be serious about learning Swift and got started with building a simple utility app for macOS to help me…
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The Yahoo News Digest app includes a couple of interesting user interface elements that I wanted to use within my own apps. The feature that I was most keen to recreate was the stretching UITableViewHeader. Its an effect seen in lots of iOS (sometimes referred to as a parallax header). As Beer Drinkin is going…
Read MoreAdding Parse to your Xamarin.Forms solution
I’ve recently been developing a Xamarin.Forms app which required a cloud service for data persistence and syncing across multiple devices and platforms. Normally when I’m developing Xamarin.Forms apps, it tends to be because I’m either writing a proof of concept or a tech demo. Both these types of projects focus of speed of development and…
Read MoreWatch out, we support WatchKit!
Xamarin have just announced preview support for Apple Watch and I can’t express how excited I was over the weekend playing with our internal preview build. At this moment time, getting started with Apple Watch can be little confusing, what with the need for 3 different project types to get a hello world sample running! You can…
Read MoreCross-Platform Desktop UIs with C#
I’ve spent the last 4 weeks traveling Europe for the Xamarin European roadshow, and have had the opportunity to meet a few thousand C# developers who share a passion for cross-platform development. In almost every city, I’ve been asked to recommend a Xamarin.Forms style library for developing desktop applications. In this blog post I’m going…
Read MoreRenaming your Xamarin.Mac App
Apple has a number of guidelines and rules for developers looking to publish their Apps to Apple’s app ecosystem. One of these rules relates to the name of your app. To give you a quick overview of how some developers can have issues with theses rules, I’ve gone ahead and listed a few of them below:…
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