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 →
Intro The MAUI-team seems to be on a roll! We’ve seen multiple preview releases over the last months and with every release the product visibly improves! Last week I installed Preview 12 with the idea of creating a basic MVVM… 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 →
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 →
The term UWP is used for a lot of things: UI (WinUI), the Windows AppModel, Windows Runtime API, Store Apps,… As I’m planning to keep this a short blogpost, I’m not going to discuss this here 😀 For sake of… Continue Reading →
I couldn’t find any samples to read a Belgian Electronic Identity Card in a UWP application. With the DeviceInformation and SmartCardReader classes it is very easy to access the devices/readers connected to your PC. But how do you get information… Continue Reading →
Is it possible to show a CommandBar in UWP that… …is always expanded and fixed so the label of your AppBarButtons are always visible …has no ellipsis button to open or collapse it Yes, it is! I had to achieve… Continue Reading →
Doing UWP development, when you’ve been doing WPF/WinForms development for years, can cause some confusion sometimes. A colleague of mine got stuck when trying to launch the default application for a particular file he generated in code: var file =… Continue Reading →
In this post I would like to share how I’ve implemented user input data validation in Xamarin Forms. Over the years I’ve tried a few approaches, some with success, others without. This one is an implementation I’ve used in my… Continue Reading →
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