In The Hand Ltd

iOS

  • NFC support for all Uri types

    In order to save a few bytes, there is a special mechanism used in Uri NFC tags where one byte is reserved to match with specific Uri prefixes. A value of zero means the following text contains the full Uri,… Continue reading

  • Writing NFC Tags in .NET

    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… Continue reading

  • 32feet – Bluetooth LE Device Discovery on iOS

    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… Continue reading

  • Asking for Permission

    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… Continue reading

    Asking for Permission

  • 12 Days of Bluetooth – #6 Bluetooth Classic on iOS

    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… 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading