Whenever we load images from the web, there is a chance that the loading fails. For a better user experience, having a placeholder mechanism ready is essential. In this post, I will show you how I extended my fork of Xamarin.Forms.Nuke to achieve this goal on iOS. What is Xamarin.Forms.Nuke? Xamarin.Forms.Nuke is a…

What is glidex.forms? The glidex.forms library is a Xamarin.Forms implementation of Glide, which is one of the quasi standards for imaging on Android (it is even recommended by Google). Luckily, Jonathan Peppers from Microsoft has a passion to improve Xamarin.Android, and Xamarin.Forms takes a big advantage from that as well. He made the…

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 Azure Function that handles our newly created Webhook. First, let’s have a look at the lineup of this series once again: Preparing your WordPress (blog/site) Preparing…

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 blog. …

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, based on the Xamarin.Forms.NamedSize enumeration. Why do I need this? When working with text, we often have to deal with some or all of the following: …

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 Extensions I am using frequently and that are making my life as a developer a bit easier. Xaml Styler Download Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TeamXavalon.XAMLStyler Project Site: https://github.com/Xavalon/XamlStyler …

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 options, but sometimes they aren’t enough. A common practice is to write custom renderers, but with the Effects API, there is another cool kid…

You may have noticed that we were silent since UniShare died last year in terms of communications. Nonetheless, we were busy building things behind the scenes. We also took the time to make some strategic decisions about our social media and web presences. Moving away from Facebook The first decision was about our presences…