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So genymotion is awesome! However, they recently released version 2.0 and while it seems like it is fine for personal use, using for anything else costs a huge premium. This isn’t a huge issue for some, but more pressing is the issues that I have run into with memory leaks and virtual box causing havok on my machine. So back to it, the good old x86 Intel HAX Android emulator for PC/Mac. First things first is that you …
James Montemagno
In android 4.1 and 4.2 Google did something amazing, which was add the roboto fonts as a default font family that you can switch between. It is as easy as setting “sans-serif”, “sans-serif-light”, “sans-serif-condensed”, and “sans-serif-thin” as the android:FontFamily. However the obvious issue here is that this is only available in 4.1+ (with thin only being available in 4.2). So if you want to target older …
James Montemagno
This blog is now obsolete as official PCL support has been added to Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS for both Visual Studio and Xamarin Studio. There is no longer a need to do any file copying or anything fancy, simply hit File->New Project -> PCL. I have a webinar: you can find here So last night at the Xamarin drinkup in Bellevue there was a lot of discussion about PCL and also bout MVVM frameworks such as the …
James Montemagno
So before motzcod.es existed I did a lot of blog posting about code and such over on motzwrit.es. As tumblr doesn’t allow a good way to transition posts I just wanted to create a nice archive here: Windows Phone: Amazing - 1 Feature = Windows Phone Toolkit Windows Store: Re-Use your WP Isolated Storage Settings in Windows Store Apps Android/Xamarin.Andriod: The APK Dilema: To Split or Not to Split Making Theme.Holo …
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If you don’t know about Tweedle and you are on Twitter and Android you should probably download it. It is a fantastic twitter client with focus on core Android design which is clean and beautiful. It is also developer by an awesome developer, Mr. Daniel Huckaby. I have been using it nearly since day one and he keeps updating it with great features and enhancements. A while ago he revamped the direct messages part of …
James Montemagno
