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Setting iOS permission descriptions in Visual Studio 2017
Setting iOS permission descriptions in Visual Studio 2017

I spend most of my developer day using Visual Studio for Mac, but occasionally I flip back to Visual …

Describing a photo in a mobile app using Azure Computer Vision
Describing a photo in a mobile app using Azure Computer Vision

I recently gave an introduction to Xamarin talk at Imperial College, London and wanted to build a …

Xamarin in Action is now on the bookshelves!
Xamarin in Action is now on the bookshelves!

Finally, after 2 years since I first put pen to paper (well, put keystroke to Atom), Xamarin in …

Xamarin Essentials
Xamarin Essentials

TL;DR - check out Xamarin Essentials in the official documentation. Like a lot of developers, I love …

Building mobile apps in F# using Xamarin.Forms and Elmish
Building mobile apps in F# using Xamarin.Forms and Elmish

FSharp and Xamarin Xamarin is well known for allowing you to build mobile apps in C#, but you can …

Face identification with Azure Cognitive Services Face API
Face identification with Azure Cognitive Services Face API

Recently I’ve been playing with a lot AI and seeing how it can be used in mobile apps to …

Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 5, Plugin for on-device models
Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 5, Plugin for on-device models

In the first part of this series I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image …

Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 4, using the models offline on Android
Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 4, using the models offline on Android

In the first part of this series I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image …

Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 3, using the models offline in iOS
Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 3, using the models offline in iOS

In the first part of this series I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image …

Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 2, using the model
Identifying my daughters toys using AI - Part 2, using the model

In the first part of this post I used the Azure Custom Vision service to create an image classifier …

Getting a users Facebook profile after Authenticating your Xamarin app with Azure
Getting a users Facebook profile after Authenticating your Xamarin app with Azure

I’ve recently been looking at the authentication offered by Azure for use in a mobile app, …

Creating Visual Studio project and solution templates - Part 3, VS for Mac extension
Creating Visual Studio project and solution templates - Part 3, VS for Mac extension

In the first part of this set of posts I looked at creating a dotnet new project template, and in …