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Animate Anything with Xamarin.Forms

I have been building apps with Xamarin.Forms for nearly 6 years now! I love how it has evolved over the years, added new controls, new features, and simplified everything with Shell. While I think I can build pretty decent apps in general, one thing that I have always struggled with is animations. The very first release of Xamarin.Forms had a built in animation system to fade, move, and scale any of the controls. …

James Montemagno

The Beautiful & Complex FlexLayout Comes to Hanselman.Forms

Last week I wrote about my new quest to fully optimize and enhance Hanselman.Forms. This involves using the latest and greatest in Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials, but it also means spicing up the app with some lovely visuals and design. My first quest was to re-design the podcast section of the mobile app to create a list in grid form of different podcast that Hanselman produces.

James Montemagno

How To Get A Great App Icon: The Fiverr Experiment

As a developer I wouldn’t say I am the greatest graphic designer in the world. I mean I can stumble around Photoshop and make some sweet gradients and feather a few things, but that is about the extent of it. Over the last few years I have been pretty lucky to have a graphics design team at my back to make any image assets I needed and of course lay down the final App Icons that ship to the stores. Here are a few …

James Montemagno
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