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Back in 2010 Microsoft released Windows Phone 7. It was a huge change from the Pocket PC/Windows Mobile OS which had preceded it and while it brought a modern UI and app-store infrastructure it missed a number of pieces of core functionality from the older phones. One of these was support for Tasks. I set […]
While debugging your Xamarin Android app in Visual Studio you can capture a video of the device screen and upload it to your PC. To do this open the ADB command prompt from the Xamarin Android toolbar:- At the command prompt navigate to a folder where you want the video to end up. Type the […]
When we talk about app settings we could mean a few different things. The actual settings values which are stored by your app, an in-app method to view/edit those settings or the iOS Settings UI which exposes both system and application settings to the user in the centralised place. In this article we’ll look at […]
Seems to Have an Invisible Touch To produce a demonstration video on Android you can turn on screen visualisations from the Developer settings menu and this will shows screen interactions on a screen capture. No such option exists on iOS so you need to write some custom code in your app instead. A couple of […]
I was almost at the point of retiring the app since Mail & Calendar has supported iCalendar (.ics) files for a while now. Then I came across a scenario where the app is still required. vCalendar files (.vcs) are very similar but use version 1.0 of the vCalendar spec whereas iCalendar is version 2.0. Mail […]
From a Win32 .NET library (One that targets desktop apps whether Console, WinForms or WPF) you can add two references and take advantage of (most) UWP APIs. The first is a .NET library which handles interop with the UWP / WinRT APIs:- C:Program Files (x86)Reference AssembliesMicrosoftFramework.NETCorev4.5System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime.dll The second is the metadata for the UWP APIs […]
Some time ago I created a MediaElement control for Xamarin Forms for displaying video (and audio) content across the main mobile platforms and it’s been steadily improving and has been used in a number of projects. After some discussions on GitHub I started the process of integrating the control into Xamarin Forms itself with a […]
Beyond the sensors built into the board the possibilities are endless when you consider attaching external devices. As I mentioned in my previous post, the DevKit has an edge connector with a number of input/output pins as well as power. You’ll need an “edge connector breakout” like this to make use of them. I found […]
The Azure IoT DevKit is an Arduino compatible board which is ready to use in conjunction with Azure IoT Hub to build an end-to-end IoT system. Code running on the board is native C and you deploy to the board using Visual Studio Code over the included USB cable. Then your device uses WiFi to […]
I’ve been working on adding macOS support to 32feet.NET and there are two frameworks in macOS for Classic Bluetooth – IOBluetooth and IOBluetoothUI. I soon discovered that neither of these had bindings in the standard Xamarin.Mac package which is referenced by all Xamarin Mac applications. I decided to build binding libraries for both APIs and […]
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