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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