In The Hand Ltd

Xamarin

  • Update to Xamarin Forms MediaElement

    Things are progressing with the Xamarin Forms Pull Request but it’s a big change and I’ve had feedback on how quickly (or not) it’s going. For this reason I’ve decided to post an update to InTheHand.Forms to port some of… Continue reading

  • Xamarin Forms Fast Renderers – Part 2 Android

    Following on from Part 1, this post will briefly discuss the Android approach to Fast Renderers. Again there isn’t really any documentation for control builders, but there are examples within the Xamarin Forms source to work from. Xamarin Android like… Continue reading

  • Xamarin Forms Fast Renderers – Part 1 iOS

    A Xamarin Forms Renderer provides the device-specific logic to display a Xamarin Forms control using platform-native UI. Traditionally this was done using the ViewRenderer<T,T> base class. What this actually creates in the UI hierarchy is two controls – the outer… Continue reading

  • Capture Android Screen Video from Visual Studio

    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… Continue reading

  • Xamarin iOS App Settings

    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… Continue reading

  • Touchscreen Visualisation on Xamarin iOS

    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… Continue reading

  • Xamarin Forms MediaElement

    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… Continue reading

  • More on Xamarin Insights Migration

    Since the original release of InTheHand.AppCenter.Insights just over a week ago there have been a few hundred installs, which is nice. There has also been a major change at App Center and logging handled exceptions is now supported. Therefore the… Continue reading

  • From Xamarin Insights to Visual Studio AppCenter

    If you haven’t already heard about Visual Studio AppCenter then you should check out this blog post introducing it. Microsoft have had multiple devops technologies which all lived in separate silos. Along with its own Azure Insights it inherited Xamarin… Continue reading

  • ListView Adventures – Auto-sizing Uneven Rows

    The Xamarin Forms ListView control has a tough job – it has to provide a platform agnostic, rich data-bindable control and yet take advantage of the performance and look-and-feel of the native control on each platform. I recently discovered an… Continue reading