I first added NFC code to 32feet.NET back in 2020. However, as other priorities came along it never got fully polished and released on NuGet. This year I finally got around to it and updated the code for .NET 8.0 as it had originally targeted Xamarin Forms. InTheHand.Nfc is available on NuGet and follows the […]
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When I created the InTheHand.BluetoothLE library I modeled the API on WebBluetooth as this gave a simple API surface but as it was designed to run within a browser sandbox some of the functionality is intentionally limited. For device discovery the API only provides a selection dialog. One of the most requested features early-on was […]
I’ve been asked a number of times about the process to ask for Bluetooth permission for your app. I’ve been meaning to create something reusable for some time but it has languished on the To Do list for rather too long. I recently noticed that as of .NET 8.0, MAUI will incorporate a Bluetooth permission […]
Today we take a quick detour to look at something specific to Apple devices. You Can’t Handle The API! iOS has always been the most “locked-down” mobile platform and one of its restrictions has been a lack of support for developers to work with Bluetooth Classic devices. “But wait, 32feet.NET has support for Bluetooth Classic […]
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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 so you need to write some custom code in your app instead. A couple of […]
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 odd gotcha for a specific usage. It’s possible to have rows with different heights. There […]
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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 and it all looks fine… When the project was created several Solution configurations were created […]
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Charming Storage Update
I’ve just released an update to Charming Storage on NuGet. After a lot of use in Windows Phone 8.1 projects I’ve reworked the TryGetItemAsync StorageFolder extension method to improve the performance. On average it is now takes 1/4 of the time to retrieve file items. Interestingly in Windows 10 this API becomes part of the Universal […]
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iRAPP Remote Desktop
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 […]
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Get battery level on Windows and iOS
In Windows Phone 8.1 a new API was added to both retrieve the current battery level as a percent of fully charged and also handle an event fired when the value changed. Sadly this API is not common across this and “big” Windows. In a couple of projects I’ve needed to retrieve the battery level […]
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