Xamarin Forms

Xamarin dev life…

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

The project XXX is missing Android SDKs required for building

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…

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…

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.

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.