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 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 →
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 →
Getting the Geo Location by using Xamarin.Essentials doesn’t work when the app is in the background. Let’s see how we can ‘fix’ this (on iOS)! Xamarin.Essentials Xamarin.Essentials is a fantastic library containing many cross-platform APIs for mobile applications. Things like… Continue Reading →
♥Februari is the month of love and friendship. That’s why the Xamarin community is sharing some Xamarin Love every day of this month: Xamarin Month of love and friendship! ♥ A lot has been told the past years about code… Continue Reading →
Error: /usr/bin/jarsigner failed with return code: 1 This issue bugged me for an entire day. The real sad thing about it is, is that I faced this same issue some months ago… So after I set up my AppCenter Android… Continue Reading →
A loooong time ago (at least, this is what it feels like…), I created this custom Xamarin Forms control HyperlinkLabel (Blog post, GitHub repo) that can show one or multiple hyperlinks inline with other text. The links can be defined… Continue Reading →
In my previous blogpost I created a small PoC to show you how to work with the Azure Custom Vision Service and WinML. In this blogpost we are going to take the same model that I have trained back then,… Continue Reading →
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