In The Hand Ltd

Xamarin

  • Xamarin Release 7 Moved my Cheese/Apple

    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… Continue reading

  • Tap, Tap, Tap, Tap, Bang!

    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… Continue reading

  • Xamarin Free For All!

    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… Continue reading

  • Xamarin Forms Maps Windows Renderers

    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.… Continue reading

  • Xamarin Forms Windows Colours

    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… Continue reading

  • InTheHand.UI v9.0

    I’ve updated InTheHand on NuGet and added the accompanying library containing UI functionality (InTheHand.UI). The main shared piece of functionality here is the MessageDialog (ala Windows.UI.Popups) and this works across all the Windows platforms (Including Windows Phone Silverlight) and iOS… Continue reading

  • Build Charming Apps v9.0 Preview

    With the impending release of Windows 10 I set about updating the Charming Apps libraries to support UWP targets and it soon became painfully clear that things had got too complicated. There was a separate dll for each small area… Continue reading

  • WinRT specific properties in Xamarin Forms XAML

    Xamarin Forms originally supported iOS, Android and Windows Phone Silverlight applications. The OnPlatform<T> class provides a mechanism for putting values directly into your XAML which are dependent on the host platform. This is often necessary to cope with different screen… Continue reading

  • Xamarin Forms Maps on Windows Phone 8.1

    Some time ago Xamarin added support for Windows Phone 8.1 (and Windows 8.1) platforms to Xamarin Forms. I wrote a blog post about how to configure your project to run your Xamarin Forms app in a Windows Phone 8.1 project.… Continue reading

  • Xamarin Forms Password Entry on Windows Runtime

    Xamarin Forms doesn’t have a specific PasswordBox control – instead you use the Entry (Think TextBox) and set IsPassword to true. Normally this works as expected and provides a masked entry box. However there is a known issue on Windows… Continue reading