Get device unique identifier in Xamarin Forms

Last week I introduced some ISV to the wonderful world of Xamarin and while discussing Xamarin Forms a few of them asked how to get an identifier that uniquely identifies a device.

Adding a splash screen to Xamarin Forms apps

Every Xamarin Forms app should ship with a splash screen, it is the first thing a user see and it contributes to reduce the perceived application boot time. 
 
Adding one is quite easy, let’s go from simpler to harder.

Change ListView RowHeight programmatically in Xamarin Android

Here’s a quick code snippet that allows you to change the row height of an Android ListView in Xamarin

public override View GetView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent)
        {…

Xamarin build server is too old?

This morning, no idea why, trying to compile a Xamarin.iOS app resulted in an error “Xamarin build server is tool old…” apparently without any reason since nothing has changed on my machine during the weekend. Tried also connecting to a different Mac machine but error was…

Visual Studio 2013: Fixing NuGet package install error in Xamarin Android projects

Recently, quite often indeed, I’m facing an issue trying to add some NuGet packages to a Xamarin Android project, in this particular case I was trying to add…

Genymotion issue with Windows 10 10586

I use Genymotion for my Xamarin Android development, I know that both Xamarin and Microsoft provide their own emulator but, for my machine configuration Genymotion is the one I like most at the moment.

Fixing SDWebImage issue on Xamarin.iOS

Loading an image into an ImageView control using Xamarin.iOS is a straightforward process:

• Add a ImageView to a ViewController and give it a name (e.g: MyImage)
• Add an image to Resources folder (e.g Users.png)…

Dynamic localization of Windows Store apps

Localizing a Windows Store app is a fairly easy task thanks to the x:UId attribute introduced with WinRT. 
If you need to create a Multilanguage application just add to your Visual Studio solution a folder named Strings and below it add a folder for each…