Rob Gibbons wrote a fantastic blog post back in 2015 on how best to write network requests layers for your Xamarin Apps. I've personally used this approach many times, but…
Mike JApril 25, 2018
We've all seen tutorials which demonstrate how to deploy a simple todo list backend to Azure but how many have you read that go onto secure it? In this post,…
Mike JSeptember 7, 2017
I wanted to add a little bit of spice to an old app this weekend and decided to implement two incredibly simple features into the next revision of Bait News.…
Mike JAugust 13, 2017
Most mobile apps require some form of infrastructure to function correctly. In the case of something like Instagram, they'll likely have some blob storage for storing images and then a…
Mike JMarch 31, 2017
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…
Mike JFebruary 1, 2016
Search is a feature that can make or break your mobile app, but it can be incredibly difficult to get right. In this blog post, I'm going to share how…
Mike JJanuary 4, 2016
Over the weekend I decided to look at a project which hasn't recieved much love since I orginally wrote it earlier in the year. That project is PCL for interacting…
Mike JDecember 14, 2015
Until recently I'd done an amazing job of avoiding Auto Layouts on anything other than demo apps, instead opting to create my layouts with springs and structs. All my apps within…
Mike JDecember 7, 2015
A couple of weeks ago I started writing a library to speed up the development of iOS app. My aim was to make creating beautiful iOS apps even easier and share more…
Mike JNovember 30, 2015