MAUI finally had its day in the limelight at .NET Conf 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 the event that I am excited about.
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Explore Prism.Forms With Prism Form Features Gallery
Prism.Forms is a powerful framework for building Xamarin.Forms application. It is very well-know in the Xamarin Community. If you are interested in exploring the framework, or if you are already using Prism.Forms and would like to explore new releases, 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, blog or speak on Prism.Forms, Prism.Forms Gallery is for you. Prism.Forms Gallery demonstrates a number of Prism and Prism.Forms features in a single app.
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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 front and center in Android as well. Fortunately, it is rather simple to add dark mode support to our Xamarin apps, as we will discover in this post. Or simply opt-out of it all together.
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Checkbox For Xamarin.Forms
Xamarin.Forms is great. But, every now and then, it falls short on some basic modern controls e.g checkbox, radio buttons, cards, etc. Luckily, Xamarin community is large and very engaged with the platform. You can find plethora of custom controls or blogs on how to build custom controls for your project needs.
In recent years, I have created a bunch of custom controls that I am sure the community at large can benefit from. One such controls is a simple Checkbox. There are lots of implementations of checkbox available, but I wanted something simple and light, so I created one. Here’s how the checkbox works…
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 when we have a bunch of boiler plate code for our properties, constructors, bindable properties, etc.
Code snippets can be a huge topic, but in this post, I will list some of the XAML and C# code snippets useful when developing Xamarin.Forms mobile applications.
In this post,
- Snippets
- Creating Code Snippets
- C# Examples
- XAML Examples
- Export Templates
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