Lately I was working on a project, where a Raspberry Pi was involved. In this post I will show you how I will setup a newly Raspberry Pi with the latest Raspberry Pi OS. — Introduction Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers. The Raspberry Pi project originally leaned towards the promotion of teaching basic computer science in schools. For our project we needed a Raspberry Pi to be used as a SignalR server and also we need the possibility to run a .NET…

I’ve already published a post showing how to create a simple rating control which can be used in .NET MAUI using an icon font. For this approach we added all the needed data directly into our .NET MAUI project. I don’t like this approach and that is the reason why I decided to take a look on how I can create a NuGet package containing the rating control which than can be consumed in any .NET MAUI application.

Sometimes you need a simple control to show a rating inside of your app. In this blog post I will show you how you can easily create a simple rating control in .NET MAUI for all platforms. — Preparation To implement such a rating control we need to prepare some stuff. Due to the fact that I will use Labels with a font icon, we need to download the font first. …

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. …

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.

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…