In The Hand LtdOne of the books I read when I first got interested in computers was from the Ladybird books How It Works series. The volume covering “The Computer” was published in 1979 and, as you can imagine, features plenty of suitably dated illustrations of computers of the time. It ends with a page speculating about the […]
In the recent Windows 11 22H2 release Microsoft deprecated a number of APIs used for making phone calls. Previously Thy Phone had used these because they presented a standard Windows dialog for call handling (incoming and outgoing) and the experience was consistent with Your Phone / Phone Link. The reason for removing these was given […]
It’s difficult to come up with the right words to describe what we are seeing unfolding in Ukraine. It’s very easy to feel completely powerless. Our own government (United Kingdom) have been very weak with their response both in terms of sanctions and in supporting refugees, compared with many of our neighbours. The Disasters Emergency […]
I’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/
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 […]
With Windows 10 the original Charms introduced with Windows 8 have gone. Old Windows 8.x apps will display a window menu with those commands if supported in the app e.g. You’ll also notice the icon has changed in Windows 10 to a kind of “three person group hug from above” image whereas they had a […]
In case you missed it there is a great blog post on .NET 4.6 which is a part of Windows 10. Among the various performance and Hi-DPI improvements there are some more subtle enhancements. Perhaps as a nod to Microsoft’s new openness to other platforms there are some helper methods on DateTimeOffset for converting to […]
Firstly, just to clarify, I don’t rap – this is a post about a useful Remote Desktop server for OSX. Wait, I hear you cry, you’re a Windows developer! Well that is true but I also use Xamarin to produce apps for iOS and Android and to build and deploy iOS apps you have to […]
In order to extend the app onto Windows devices I’ve re-written the Calendar Import app as a Universal app with separate UI and features for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. Both apps add the new feature of browsing for files to import from directly within the app itself. This is on top of the […]
I received my Band today and have just started setting it up, loading in my Starbucks card and tweaking settings. One thing which is interesting is that the phone doesn’t use GATT Bluetooth LE to expose functionality unlike some other wearables. Instead it has three RfComm services named:- Cargo Service Cargo Service 2 Push Service […]
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