Xamarin.forms

Upcoming talks
Upcoming talks

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be talking at a couple of major conferences this year: …

Animating Xamarin Forms progress bars
Animating Xamarin Forms progress bars

Don’t you just hate boring UIs? With no animations to bring them to life? Me too! Especially …

Reviewed - Xamarin Mobile Application Development
Reviewed - Xamarin Mobile Application Development

Xamarin Mobile Application Development By Dan Hermes (@ lexiconsystems) Recently I was lucky enough …

Device.StartTimer and iOS backgrounding
Device.StartTimer and iOS backgrounding

I recently completed a lecture on backgrounding in iOS and Android as part of the Xamarin …

Binding iOS libraries in Xamarin
Binding iOS libraries in Xamarin

Update: Since writing this, James Montemagno from Xamarin contacted me to say they are working on an …

JimLib.Xamarin is now updated to the Unified API
JimLib.Xamarin is now updated to the Unified API

Finally, after fighting with Xamarin and having my Surface die and need to be reinstalled twice, …

Xamarin Unified API
Xamarin Unified API

Recently Apple announced some changes to their requirements for apps submitted to the iOS app store. …

Orientation with Xamarin.Forms
Orientation with Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms is a great cross platform development tool when it works, but being cross platform it …

iOS pull to refresh without using a UITableView
iOS pull to refresh without using a UITableView

I’ve been working on the UI for my current app, trying to make some usability improvements. …

Setting the font for an Entry control using Xamarin.Forms
Setting the font for an Entry control using Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms depsite being very cool is stil a bit lacking when it comes to not only a good range …

Grouping in ListViews with Xamarin.Forms
Grouping in ListViews with Xamarin.Forms

Xamarin.Forms provides a lot of cool features to use for mobile app development, and the …