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Just a little over a month ago I decided to start a brand new live video series called Motz Codes Live. The idea was to cover a random mobile topic that I was investigating or interested in or perhaps a cover from YOU that you wanted to see, and I have to say that so far things have gone AMAZING with a bunch of awesome developers showing up each week and thousands of video views already.
James Montemagno
If you have read motz.codes then you know I love, love, love, love, love pull to refresh! In face this is my sixth blog alone on adding pull/swipe to refresh to either MVVMCross or Xamarin.Forms applications. So why am I back with another blog seeing that the Xamarin.Forms team already add Official Pull to Refresh to 1.4? I am back because you asked me for it so nicely on GitHub, StackOverflow, and the Xamarin Forums …
James Montemagno
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”.
James Montemagno
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.
James Montemagno
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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Google went on a spree a few weeks back updating all of their support libraries to rev 22.1. If you haven’t read about all the changes be sure to read through the official Android Developer’s blog for a full breakdown. The most drastic change to the support libraries was to v7 AppCompat with the new AppCompatActivity, but there were several other enhancement to the libraries including one of my favorite Palette. If …
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Update: As of Xamarin.Forms 1.5.1 Material Design AppCompat is included! See the official blog to convert your app: https://blog.xamarin.com/material-design-for-your-xamarin-forms-android-apps/ I am an extremely big fan of Material Design for Android applications. Case and point is this tweet that I sent out last night: I wish the entire world was themed with Material Design. — James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) …
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You may have seen some of my tweets recently about the upcoming release of Coffee Filter 2.0 with some awesome new features. Before I release any Android app I always send it off to my good friend Jérémie Laval to do a full UI review. We both love Android and Material Design and he always gives me the best pointers on how to improve my apps. On my details page I setup a complex view with an image on the background …
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