Category: Xamarin
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Inject Static Libraries And Plugins In Xamarin (Prism.Forms)
When using a container for dependency injection in your Xamarin.Forms app, you may find yourself trying to use a plugin or library that is static that you want to register with your container. Having statics in our code makes it hard to test and causes coupling. In this post, I will demonstrate using Prism.Forms how
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Tutorial: BottomNavigationView and ViewPager in Xamarin.Android
Android introduced BottomNavigationView in API 25.1 and I like it. To be honest, one of the biggest difference between iOS and Android for me was the placement of tabs. I enjoyed ActionBar tabs when they were a thing and loved the fact that I could swipe the tabs as I wished. But, when I used
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Using Prism.Forms EventAggregator with Xamarin.Forms
If you are building a Xamarin.Forms app, it should be a no-brainer that you use MVVM pattern for your code base. It should also be a no-brainer that you give Prism.Forms a try. It makes development fast and code easy to maintain with its plethora of built-in services such for navigation, dependency injection, alerts, events,…
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Handling Multiple Taps in Xamarin.Forms on Android
Sometimes in this beautiful world of cross-platform mobile development, we come across a problem that makes no sense at first. But after some StackOverflow surfing and Xamarin/MSDN research, we may find a way to tackle that problem. In some scenarios, there are multiple solutions and we have to decide which approach works best given our situation. In
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Getting started with Xamarin
“How do I get started with Xamarin?” I get asked this question a lot lately, thanks to Microsoft’s acquisition of Xamarin. Less than one month after Microsoft announced the Xamarin acquisition at Build 2016, interest in Xamarin went up 3 times. This is good for developers who want to play with Xamarin and build
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