Category Xamarin

Demos talk “Realm, the cool new kid in Xamarin town”

Last week I gave a talk about Realm at the Xamarin Expert Day in Cologne, Germany. Some people asked me if I could put the code of the demos, that I used in this talk, on a public GitHub Repo. Sharing is caring, of… Continue Reading →

Sharing a Realm via a QR code using ZXing

Realm offers a nice technique to share Realms with other users using the PermissionOffer and the PermissionOfferResponse objects. The idea is that you can provide a token that an other user can use to connect to your data store. In this blogpost we will use this… Continue Reading →

Bind to Xamarin Picker but only update value after hitting Done on iOS

Sometimes you stumble upon these gems that you didn’t know they existed. Like I did today… The ‘problem’ with the Picker You might have noticed that when you are binding to the SelectedItem of a Picker in Xamarin Forms, that on iOS… Continue Reading →

Dynamically binding RESX Resources in Xamarin Forms

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… Continue Reading →

Trigger PropertyChanged of indexed property in Xamarin Forms

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… Continue Reading →

Setting up a Realm Object Server in Azure and connect to it with Xamarin Forms

Lately I’ve been playing around with Realm. Realm is a very cool platform that allows us to easily build mobile apps that use things like local data storage, two-way data synchronisation, real time collaboration, … Things that typically require some coding… Continue Reading →

Custom location and movement on Xamarin Remoted iOS Simulator for Windows

When I was building a Xamarin PoC at the client, I was disappointed to notice that there wasn’t any way of simulating the user’s location on the Remoted iOS Simulator for Windows. Not to mention simulating a walk or bike… Continue Reading →

Building a Xamarin app with Azure Functions and OneDrive

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… Continue Reading →

Xamarin interview questions

Intro The company I work for, Ordina Belgium, got many requests for ‘consultants with Xamarin experience’ from our customers lately. As leader of the Mobile Competence Center at Ordina, I’m bundling the interview questions our consultants get dished up when… Continue Reading →

Getting the user’s physical location without location services

It has been a while since my last blogpost (due to various reasons: preparing wedding and talk at Techorama, meetings with the architect for the construction of our house,…)! But I finally found a bit time to write another blogpost. This… Continue Reading →

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