Add a SnackBar to you Xamarin.Android app

Material design introduced a new lightweight way to provide feedback to a user, something that sits between the AlertDialog and Toast alternatiives with a funny name: SnackBar. 
A Snackbar appears at the bottom of the view and can optionally display an…

A Smart RecyclerView Adapter for Xamarin.Android

RecyclerView is the recommended way to represents a collection of items in Android applications, the good and old ListView is now deprecated since RecyclerView offers a lot of improvements like flexible layout, item recyclying and enforces the…

Use IDEA IDE for Android UI design with Visual Studio and Xamarin

While Xamarin did a monster job integrating Android and iOS designers in both Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio as soon as your project becomes larger you’ll soon hit their limitations, that why many pro developers end…

Xamarin.Android Status bar color not set

Not a very descriptive title, but good for search engines

The problem: You’re using Xamarin.Android.Support.v7.AppCompat in order to have Material Design’s Toolbar available also devices running o pre-Lollipop (v.21) releases.

Using Xamarin Forms Effects

Version 2.1 of Xamarin Forms introduced Effects, a nice alternative to custom renderers when all you need is to tweak some properties of the platform native control, they should be seen as an alternative to a custom renderer not as a substitute.

Xamarin Forms preview with Gorilla Player

One of the major complaints about Xamarin Forms is the lack of designer with relative preview so, at the time of this writing, the development process is made up of a continuous sequence of: write XAML, deploy, see result, stop, edit XAML and try again, not…

XAML relative binding trick

MVVM newcomers find creating a UI like this (a simple ListView containing a button that removes current row) quite intricated.