Category: C#

  • .NET Conf 2022 Focus on MAUI Recap

    .NET Conf 2022 Focus on MAUI Recap

    MAUI finally had its day in the limelight at .NETConf with a dedicated “focused” event. There was a lot of good content shared in a roughly 8 hours long live stream. In addition to live stream, there are recorded sessions that are also available at .NET YouTube channel. Here are some of the highlights from…

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  • Explore Prism.Forms With Prism Form Features Gallery

    Explore Prism.Forms With Prism Form Features Gallery

    If you want to explore the framework, or if you are already using Prism.Forms and would like to know what all it has to offer, perhaps you are a product owner and would like to test out Prism.Forms APIs with your product, or you are a community contributor who would like to learn, share, teach,…

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  • How To Support Dark Mode In Xamarin.Forms (iOS & Android)

    How To Support Dark Mode In Xamarin.Forms (iOS & Android)

    iOS 13 introduced dark mode, and it has taken mobile app design world by storm. Making app designers produce multiple experiences for their users. Android users have been enjoying this nifty feature for some time (to some extent, based on phone manufacturers). Android Q, however, has a dedicated dark mode option that brings dark mode…

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  • Upgrade Your ListView Game With Telerik UI for Xamarin

    Upgrade Your ListView Game With Telerik UI for Xamarin

    When building mobile app UI that requires controls and transitions that are not available from the platform “out-of-the box”, we either create our own or use a third-party library to accomplish the design. Telerik UI for Xamarin makes it a breeze to get your UI looking good, fast.

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  • Stunning Animations In Xamarin.Forms With Lottie

    Stunning Animations In Xamarin.Forms With Lottie

    Lottie is an animation library by AirBnb that makes it super simple to add animation in any native app – web and mobile. It helps bridge the gap from designers designing an animation to developers implementing it in the app. In this post, we will see how we can add animations to enhance our Xamarin.Forms…

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  • Control Templates in Xamarin.Forms

    Control Templates in Xamarin.Forms

    Control Templates are a great way to customize your app’s view with themes and custom layouts. You can also use them to wrap your content and get a beautiful experience for your users. In this post, we will see how to use Control Templates to create custom layouts.

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  • Enhance Your Xamarin.Forms App’s User Experience With Polly

    Enhance Your Xamarin.Forms App’s User Experience With Polly

    One of the biggest issue API reliant apps face is unreliable network connectivity. As users move around with their mobile devices, they are bound to run into poor or dropped network connectivity issues. We must have a strategy around transient faults and network issues, and that’s where Polly comes to the rescue.

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  • Pro Tip: Useful Code Snippets For Your Xamarin.Forms Development

    Pro Tip: Useful Code Snippets For Your Xamarin.Forms Development

    Code snippets are a hidden gem in Visual Studio that most of us do not pay much attention to. Utilizing them correctly can increase productivity when we have a lot to code. In Visual Studio, code snippets are available for multiple programming languages e.g. C#, F#, XML, HTML, CSS, Python, etc. They are extremely useful

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  • Card View For Xamarin.Forms Using Custom Layouts

    Card View For Xamarin.Forms Using Custom Layouts

    In this post, we will learn how to create a card view with child views using custom layouts. Creating a custom card unifies the experience for the user, gives us more control on the design of the app and speeds up the cross-platform UI/UX workflows. It is easy to get a simple, yet flexible, card

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