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Workaround to force Xamarin.Forms WebView to use a dark mode CSS for local content on Android

Recently I updated my blog reader app to support the dark mode newer iOS and Android version support. While everything went smooth on iOS…

3 min readApr 6, 2021

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Workaround to force Xamarin.Forms WebView to use a dark mode CSS for local content on Android

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Extending Xamarin.Forms.Nuke on iOS to load a placeholder for images that fail to load

Whenever we load images from the web, there is a chance that the loading fails. For better user experience, having a placeholder mechanism…

4 min readMar 20, 2021

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Extending Xamarin.Forms.Nuke on iOS to load a placeholder for images that fail to load

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Extending glidex.forms on Android to load a placeholder for images that fail to load

In this post I’ll show you how I extended the GlideExtensions in my fork of glidex.forms for Android to load a placeholder from …

5 min readMar 26, 2021

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Extending glidex.forms on Android to load a placeholder for images that fail to load

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Sending push notifications to your Xamarin app from WordPress with Azure, Part II — the Function

In this second post of my series about sending push notifications from WordPress to Xamarin apps via Azure, we’ll have a look at the …

6 min readMar 15, 2020

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Sending push notifications to your Xamarin app from WordPress with Azure, Part II — the Function

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Sending push notifications to your Xamarin app from WordPress with Azure, Part I [new series]

It is no secret that push notifications help to keep your users engaged. There are a bunch of options out there if you have a WordPress…

5 min readFeb 29, 2020

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Sending push notifications to your Xamarin app from WordPress with Azure, Part I [new series]

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#XfEffects: Forms Effect to automatically scale FontSize on Label

In this second post of my #XfEffects series, I am going to show you how to make the text of a Label grow and shrink within a defined range…

4 min readJan 17, 2020

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#XfEffects: Forms Effect to automatically scale FontSize on Label

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Visual Studio Extensions that will make your life easier in 2020

We finally arrived in 2020 — time to kick off my blogging year as well. With this post, I will show you some of the Visual Studio…

5 min readJan 5, 2020

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Visual Studio Extensions that will make your life easier in 2020

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What I’ve learned from porting my first app ever to Android and iOS with Xamarin

I finally finished to port my first app ever from Windows Phone to Android and iOS — Fishing Knots + is finally published in the Google…

6 min readNov 19, 2019

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What I’ve learned from porting my first app ever to Android and iOS with Xamarin

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#XfEffects: Xamarin.Forms Effect to change the Tint color of ImageButton’s image — (new series)

Every now and then, we need to customize our Xamarin.Forms apps to match a theme or other requirements. The Forms API has already a lot of…

6 min readSep 17, 2019

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#XfEffects: Xamarin.Forms Effect to change the Tint color of ImageButton’s image — (new series)

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Changes to our social media channels

You may have noticed that we were silent since UniShare died last year in terms of communications. Nonetheless, we were busy building…

2 min readSep 15, 2019

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Changes to our social media channels

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.NET Dev at day & night, Geek, Blockchain interested. Father of 2 teenagers, husband of a fantastic wife. Founder of MSiccDev. Opinions are mine.

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