
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…

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…

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.

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…