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Corrado Cavalli

I’m a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, former Xamarin/Microsoft MVP and, when not in front of a monitor, a passionate mountain biker and ski tourer.

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Feb 14, 2019

Xamarin dev life…

A couple of solutions to problems I’ve struggled with…

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Jan 14, 2019

.NET Standard and Multi-targeting

Wanna run some platform specific code inside a .NET Standard library?

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Jan 8, 2019

The project XXX is missing Android SDKs required for building

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Mar 16, 2018

Trace application flow easily

UWP applications are compiled using .NET Native compiler as detailed here.
This process gives many advantages over JIT compilation:

-Up to 60% performance improvement on cold startup times

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Jan 25, 2018

Fix Xamarin Form compilation errors

I’ve recentily repaved my development machine and installed Visual Studio 2017 adding nearly all features including, of course, Xamarin and all subsequent updates.
Today I’ve tried to create a blank new Xamarin Forms project targeting .Net Standard for the common…

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Sep 26, 2016

Genymotion and VirtualBox install issue

I use Genymotion as Android emulator for my Xamarin work, I know that there are better alternatives like Microsoft’s Android emulator but since can’t turn on Hyper-V on my machine this is the solution that works best for me.

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May 29, 2016

I am a Xamarin MVP!

Xamarin, like Microsoft has its own MVP (Most Valuable Professional) program that awards people “who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to helping others get the most out of their experience with Xamarin by sharing their passion, real-world knowledge, and technical expertise with…

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Apr 25, 2016

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…

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Apr 21, 2016

AutoHide FloatingActionButton in Xamarin.Android

My main phone is an Android and as a news app I use a 3rd party aggregator that, al nearly all Android apps today is based on Material Design.
Using it everyday I couldn’t ignore a nice UI feature it exposes: it’s share button (a Material…

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Apr 14, 2016

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.