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·Apr 29

Build your Xamarin.iOS application with Azure DevOps

During the development process it is important that you provide a test version for your testers to get feedback and improve your application. It is also important that you don’t create the corresponding packages on your machine instead use a pipeline. — Introduction I’ve already published a post about creating a pipeline on Azure DevOps to build your Xamarin.Android application. This post will now explain how you can build your Xamarin.iOS application on an Azure DevOps service. …

Azure Devops

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Build your Xamarin.iOS application with Azure DevOps
Build your Xamarin.iOS application with Azure DevOps

Published in medialesson

·Apr 9

App Tracking Transparency Permission in Xamarin.Forms for iOS

Apple has long been committed to the privacy of user data. Therefore, as an app developer you have to inform the user that your app is collecting user data. — Introduction But that’s not all, because the user also has the option to reject this, so that the app is then not allowed to collect any user-specific data, like an user id to identify the user and share that data with other companies. Apple has released the AppTrackingTransparency framework for this…

Apple

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App Tracking Transparency Permission in Xamarin.Forms for iOS
App Tracking Transparency Permission in Xamarin.Forms for iOS

Published in medialesson

·Apr 7

Build your Xamarin.Android application with Azure DevOps

During the development process it is important that you provide a test version for your testers to get feedback and improve your application. It is also important that you don’t create the corresponding packages on your machine instead use a pipeline. — Introduction I’m using Azure DevOps for hosting my projects. So I have all the needed code in the repository. After you pushed your solution to the corresponding Git repository, we are now able to setup our pipeline.

Xamarin

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Build your Xamarin.Android application with Azure DevOps
Build your Xamarin.Android application with Azure DevOps

Published in medialesson

·Jan 18

Show PDF files in your Xamarin Android app

Sometimes it is necessary that you need to display a PDF file within your application. In this post I will show you three different ways to achieve that. I will mainly concentrate on the Android platform, because on iOS you can simply use Xamarin.Forms.WebView control to display the PDF file. Using Xamarin.Essentials …

Xamarin

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Show PDF files in your Xamarin Android app
Show PDF files in your Xamarin Android app

Published in medialesson

·Oct 7, 2020

Access platform-specific APIs within your Xamarin.Forms app

How you can get access to platform-specific APIs while still keeping a clean architecture by using Dependency Injection — Introduction The approach of Xamarin.Forms is that you can write nearly the whole application once and then this app gets compiled to the different mobile operating systems, like Android and iOS. Which means that you most of the time don’t need to write platform-specific code.

Xamarin Forms

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Access platform-specific APIs within your Xamarin.Forms app
Access platform-specific APIs within your Xamarin.Forms app

Published in medialesson

·Aug 10, 2020

Replatforming: From Xamarin Native to Xamarin.Forms

Normally you have to decide between Xamarin Native and Xamarin.Forms for your mobile app. But sometimes you change your mind and want to change the framework. So I’m showing you how you can replatform your app to Xamarin.Forms. — Introduction Before you actually start developing a mobile app, you have to make various decisions. This includes, for example, the choice of the framework. At the time of creating the app which will be transformed, there was a requirement to create an app for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. That is…

Xamarin

5 min read

Replatforming: From Xamarin Native to Xamarin.Forms
Replatforming: From Xamarin Native to Xamarin.Forms

Jun 20, 2020

Useful code snippets for Xamarin development

This blog post is a part of Luis Matos’s Xamarin Month, where this months topic is Code Snippets. For more information take a look at this blog and see the list of all the other authors who are participating. …

Xamarin

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Useful code snippets for Xamarin development
Useful code snippets for Xamarin development

Apr 21, 2020

Custom Fonts in Xamarin.Forms app

Introduction I’ve already written a short story about using FontAwesome within an Xamarin.Forms app. With the latest release of Xamarin.Forms it is way easier to add a custom font to your application. I will show you step by step how this is done with Xamarin.Forms 4.5 or later. Add font to Xamarin.Forms app First of all…

Xamarin

3 min read

Custom Fonts in Xamarin.Forms app
Custom Fonts in Xamarin.Forms app

Jul 28, 2019

Xamarin.Forms: How to create an Initials View as custom control for Android and iOS

Introduction If you are working with Xamarin.Forms to create a mobile application for Android and/or iOS you have lots of predefined controls which you can easily integrate into your app. But sometimes these controls don’t fit your actual needs and so you need to think about creating your own controls. In…

Xamarin

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Xamarin.Forms: How to create an Intials View as custom control for Android and iOS
Xamarin.Forms: How to create an Intials View as custom control for Android and iOS

Jul 28, 2019

Xamarin.Forms: How to create a Labeled Switch as custom control for Android and iOS

Introduction If you are working with Xamarin.Forms to create a mobile application for Android and/or iOS you have lots of predefined controls which you can easily integrate into your app. But sometimes these controls don’t fit your actual needs and so you need to think about creating your own controls. In…

Xamarin

4 min read

Xamarin.Forms: How to create a Labeled Switch as custom control for Android and iOS
Xamarin.Forms: How to create a Labeled Switch as custom control for Android and iOS
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