Yesterday marked a bitter sweet moment in the world of mobile development: Xamarin, a tool that has been instrumental in the evolution of cross-platform mobile applications, was officially archived. This news brings a mix of emotions for me. As a… Continue Reading →
In a previous blogpost, I showed you how to leverage the Whisper model on Azure OpenAI Services to transcribe an audio file to text. We can easily take this a step further: instead of just returning the speech as text,… Continue Reading →
TLDR; I’ve written a book about applying the MVVM pattern in .NET MAUI called “The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI: The definitive guide to essential patterns, best practices, and techniques for cross-platform app development”. I’m super excited about this! If… Continue Reading →
Whisper model in Azure OpenAI Service Recently Microsoft announced that Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Speech now offer the OpenAI Whisper model in preview (link) “Whisper” is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system developed by OpenAI. It’s trained… Continue Reading →
In almost all of my mobile apps, I use Font Awesome to display icons. It’s a huge library and it’s super easy to use in .NET MAUI and Xamarin.Forms. You can even use the ‘Duotone’ icons which have 2 colors… Continue Reading →
Update December 2023 This blogpost was originally posted in February 2022. Since then, .NET MAUI and my insights have evolved a bit. On the other hand, lots of the things discussed in this blogpost are still valid today. However, if… Continue Reading →
Oh ooh! Video file not streaming on Android… While developing a Xamarin.Forms app, we encountered an issue where an mp4 file wouldn’t play on Android, on iOS everything worked perfectly! To display the video we are using the MediaElement from… Continue Reading →
Since a few week I’ve been playing around with preview builds of .NET MAUI. Installing MAUI Preview 8 A couple of days ago Microsoft released the latest preview version of MAUI: preview 8. Although I’m pretty sure I’ve followed every… Continue Reading →
The MAUI way: a single Project With Xamarin.Forms, we typically had this kind of project structure: A shared project, containing all of our shared code and different ‘head’ projects for each platform you want to target. This isn’t the case… Continue Reading →
For a LOB application I’m building, one very important request is the fact that users should be able to input/edit data as fast as possible. Allowing users to use the tab key to navigate from one input control to another… Continue Reading →
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