Live, Love, Bike, and Code.
Live, Love, Bike, and Code.
I simply love Matt Ward, a wonderful developer who works on NuGet inside of Xamarin Studio. He is always blogging about all of the recent updates to NuGet in XS, so be sure to follow his blog. Matt does so much more though including an awesome add-in for Xamarin Studio to add some awesome new features when using Xamarin Studio. My favorite feature is Solution Level adding of NuGet packages. Why do I love this …
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In just under eight months in Orlando, FL thousands of mobile .NET developers will be heading to the next Xamarin Evolve conference. Xamarin Evolve 2014 was one of the most spectacular conferences that I have ever been part of and have ever attended. The most amazing developers came together for five action packed days of training, sessions, hacking, and collaboration. To keep it short, you do NOT want to miss …
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When I am not traveling around presenting at conferences, dev days, user groups, and code camps you will probably find me doing one of three things: Riding my bike, drinking coffee, and most likely coding. The elusive Motz can be found coding usually from home or in a coffee shop drinking said coffe, but I have finally decided to unleash my coding to the world in a new web series I am calling “Motz Codes Live”.
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Xamarin.Forms has a super powerful ListView. You can easily add custom cells, pull to refresh, headers, footers, and even sections with just a few lines of code. A while ago I talked about how to easily group items to display section headers in the ListView. You get a great native styling of section headers with just a few simple lines of code. One thing I have noticed and has bothered me specifically with iOS is the …
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So this is actually a very odd tip with a very specific use case. When you embed a UIWebView into your application and feed it static content it will simply render what you tell it to. An issue may arise when you actually have to embed dynamic web content into your application. Hopefully this is a rare case and you are building native apps with Xamarin and C#, but there is one specific case where you have to use a …
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Xamarin.Forms’ default templates for applications are great! They give you everything you need to get up and running including all three of your app projects and your shared code project. Nothing is faster than this to get a cross-platform application spun up. One thing they don’t do by default is setup nice themes for your applications, in fact they simply use the default device themes, but we can do better.
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It has been a bit over a year since I first introduced my Xamarin.Android Templates pack for Visual Studio and things sure have changed in the world of Android since then. Early on the templates pack only introduced a few item templates for menu items and a simple implementation of the Navigation Drawer, my favorite way to navigate in Android. Then this March Google went and changed everything with AppCompat and the …
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I am a huge fan of Xamarin Studio and live inside of it around 50% of my development time. When I need to do library or Windows development though I head over to my good friend Visual Studio. Luckily the same exact project and solutions open in either IDE so it makes syncing with GitHub extremely easy. When I start up a Xamarin.Forms project I usually do it from Visual Studio so it spins up an iOS, Android, and …
James Montemagno
James Montemagno is a Principal Lead Program Manager for Developer Community at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005, working in a wide range of industries including game development, printer software, and web services. Live, Love, Bike, and Code.
