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…

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.

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 …

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.

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. …

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…

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…

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…