Localizing your app isn’t the most fun thing to do. In the last couple of years I’ve seen and tried various ways of implementing multi language support. In this blogpost I would like to share how I recently set up localization in a Xamarin Froms app. With this approach, I am able to bind to items in… Read More »
Xamarin Forms supports binding to indexed properties. But do you know how to trigger a PropertyChanged event on such a property so that the binding engine gets the updated value? Binding to indexed properties Binding to an indexed property in Xamarin Forms is simple. Imagine my ViewModel has an indexed property:
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Dictionary<string, string> Data { get; } = new Dictionary<string, string>() { { "123", "Pie" }, { "456", "Eating" }, { "789", "Ninjas" } }; public string this[string id] { get { return Data[id]; } } |
I can simply bind… Read More »
Preface (you can skip this if you are not interested in the underlying idea, no hard feelings!) A while ago my brother -who sells windows (no, not the OS) and doors- asked me if I could build a small app for his business. The key feature he wanted to have in his app is a map… Read More »
Intro My team and I are currently working on a UWP project which is a complete rewrite of a WinRT app that we have been building.Recently we started development on the ‘Search’ functionality. It’s that typical search paradigm: only hit the backend when the user has at least typed 3 characters and when he hasn’t… Read More »