In The Hand LtdI’ve just updated the NuGet package for InTheHand.Core. This adds a VibrationDevice which works across all Xamarin Platforms (hardware permitting) and fixes a bug with PowerManager.RemainingChargePercent on iOS. The library now has 18 namespaces full of UWP APIs for all Xamarin platforms (and this doesn’t count the sister library InTheHand.UI). Check it out here:- https://www.nuget.org/packages/InTheHand.Core/
Windows 10 brings a whole range of new APIs and functionality for building apps. However in the phone space it’s important to be mindful that there are a lot more Windows Phone 8.1 devices in use than Windows 10. Many (but not all) will get an update to Windows 10. A lot of clients are […]
It’s been a few months since I did a NuGet release but lots has been going on in the code in the mean time. The focus this year has been less about harmonising Windows APIs across versions (although that’s still there of course), but widening the functionality to the Xamarin platforms. The result is that […]
Xamarin Forms offers a NavigationPage control which allows you to do linear navigation and integrates with the native Back button on Android and Windows. However from the individual Page it isn’t possible to tell how you arrived at the page. I had a situation in a project where I needed to know whether a page […]
I have a Xamarin project which outputs Windows, iOS and Android apps. Since the latest Xamarin update I just couldn’t get it to build my IPA file. It told me to check the project configuration – I haven’t changed the configuration and it all looks fine… When the project was created several Solution configurations were created […]
There are limitations to the write-once run everywhere approach of Xamarin Forms. One of these is the subtle difference in Button behaviour across platforms. One of our testers pointed out that you could rapidly tap a Button on Android and the handler would be called multiple times. Since the Tap was initiating a page navigation […]
Yesterday Microsoft announced that the Xamarin platform (the ability to run C# apps on iOS and Android) would be free with all versions of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. This is great news and takes away a barrier for developers to use their .NET skills to write cross-platform apps. We’ve had a number of free […]
It’s possible that with last week’s announcement Windows may no longer be the Cinderella alongside iOS and Android in the Xamarin Forms world. For the moment there are gaps to be filled and one of these is in Maps support. Xamarin Forms Maps has only (so far) shipped with a renderer for Windows Phone Silverlight […]
UWP doesn’t support writing custom markup extensions however there is one built in markup extension which is extensible. The CustomResource extension allows you to write XAML such as:- <TextBlock Text=”{CustomResource PortableStringResource1}”/> In this case PortableStringResource1 is a unique key to refer to a resource in a source of your choosing. There is no out of […]
When you work with custom renderers on Xamarin Forms (and it’s very difficult not to!) you often have to convert from Xamarin Forms types to their native platform equivalent. In the iOS and Android implementations Xamarin include some extension methods to easily convert Color to the native equivalent. Being the Cinderella of the Xamarin Forms […]
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