Nov 16, 2018Winning Best in Show at Hack Manchester 2018 — My StoryLast year you may recall I wrote this post about my experience at Hack Manchester 2017. My mentor and I worked together to create a mobile app aimed at helping women going through menopausal symptoms track their hot flushes and change in mood to help them, their support network and…Hackathons7 min readHackathons7 min read
Published in dunnhumby Data Science & Engineering·Aug 20, 2018An Introduction to UITestIn this post I want to cover a really great topic for mobile development, UI testing! Why UI test? When developing an application for any platform whether that is mobile, web or somewhere else, testing plays a vital role. The most common type of testing we are used to is…I OS9 min readI OS9 min read
Apr 10, 2018Xamarin in Action — Chapter 13 — Deploying to a physical deviceWe are here! Part 3 of the book. This is all about getting you from a working app to the store. Obviously having a working application is a good start but that is not everything to get it app store ready. In this post we will cover the first chapter…I OS5 min readI OS5 min read
Mar 24, 2018Xamarin in Action — Chapters 11 and 12Time to take a bite from the other mobile APPle now, excuse the pun! So in the last post we created the views for both example apps on Android. This time we will be doing the same but for iOS. Chapter 11 — BUILDING SIMPLE IOS VIEWS Android and iOS…I OS8 min readI OS8 min read
Mar 23, 2018Xamarin in Action — Chapters 9 + 10Welcome back! This post will be reviewing Chapters 9 and 10 of the book, which covers the first V in the MVVM architecture, the view. Specifically Android. …Android8 min readAndroid8 min read
Mar 14, 2018Xamarin in Action — Chapters 6, 7 + 8Would you believe it? Part 2 of the book already! I have really enjoyed the book so far and can’t wait to see what Part 2 brings. Part 2 is all about building apps using concepts learnt in Part 1. and it will take you through building 2 example apps…I OS15 min readI OS15 min read
Mar 7, 2018Xamarin in Action — Chapters 4 + 5That’s right everyone, I am back with yet another post about Xamarin in Action. It has only been a few days since I released the last post but something big has happened in that time. …Android10 min readAndroid10 min read
Mar 4, 2018Xamarin in Action — Chapters 2 + 3I intended to try and space out the posts to one a week or something to avoid bombarding you with too many posts and giving me breathing room to take on the code. …I OS6 min readI OS6 min read
Mar 2, 2018Xamarin in Action by Jim Bennett — Chapter 1So I recently purchased an early-access copy of the book Xamarin in Action by Jim Bennett, Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. If you too want to purchase a copy of this book (which I highly recommend) then you can find it here. …Mobile App Development3 min readMobile App Development3 min read
