Category Archives: Xamarin
Xamarin: Calling Native code from a Hybrid Application
In a recent post, I described how to import code from ASP.NET MVC into a Xamarin Hybrid application. In this post, I will show how you can reach into native code from that application. Remember that our application has Views … Continue reading
iOS 8 is the biggest release since… iOS
iOS is now available and it is huge. Huge. Bigger than that. There are 15 new frameworks and over 4,000 new or modified APIs. The primary goals of this release are extensibility and adaptive (reactive) design, and they have gone very … Continue reading
Posted in iOS, Xamarin
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Yet Another Podcast #132: FalafelCon Roundtable
Talking with J. Tower, Josh Eastburn and Venkata Koppaka of Falafel Software about their upcoming presentations at FalafelCon. We also discuss working remotely, software, AngularJS, Xamarin and much more. Falafel Software FalafelCon Falafel Blogs HipChat GoToMeeting 48 States Project Special … Continue reading
Posted in AngularJS, ASP.NET, Azure, Bootstrap, Falafel Software, iOS, JavaScript, Kendo UI, Mobile, Observations, Open Source, Patterns & Skills, Xamarin, XAML
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Hybrid Apps in Xamarin?? Part 2
In a previous blog post I started to create a hybrid application in Xamarin (see that post for why this is not an entirely crazy idea). I glossed over the implementation of IDataAccess. Let’s focus on that now. In the iosStockPhoto project … Continue reading
Hybrid Apps in Xamarin??
Today I begin a new series of blog posts on creating Hybrid Applications in Xamarin. This material will excerpted from the presentation I’ll be making at Evolve 2014, though I confess I’ll be holding back some cool stuff for the … Continue reading
Yet Another Podcast #130–Intense Xamarin
We have James Montemagno and Jeremie Laval of Xamarin in a very intense discussion of Xamarin and iOS and Android. Jeremie’s Web Site Jeremie’s Blog @jeremie_laval James’ Blog James’ GitHub James’ Twitter Xamarin Evolve 2014 Listen | Yet Another Podcast … Continue reading
I’m teaching a 2-day 16-hour hands-on course on Xamarin
I’m very proud to announce that I’ll be teaching a 2 day hands-on course on Xamarin at Falafel in Hudson Ohio. This will be a very intensive course, but no prior Xamarin experience is needed, though you do want to … Continue reading
Hold It Right There: Xamarin and Unit Testing
We’ve come a long way in this series on Learning Xamarin, but we haven’t even begun to discuss Unit Tests, let alone Test Driven Development. There are lots of articles, books, Pluralsight courses, and other sources on why Unit Testing is not only a … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin: MVVM Light and Xamarin Forms
Today I’m going to kick off a series of postings on creating an application using Xamarin Forms and theMVVM Light Toolkit. This is part of a larger series on Learning Xamarin. To get started, I created a new Xamarin Forms … Continue reading
Posted in MVVM, Xamarin
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Yet Another Podcast #128: The Legendary Charles Petzold
Charles Petzold, legendary author of Programming Windows talks about DirectX and his new gig at Xamarin where he writes about Xamarin Forms, MVVM and much more. Charles Petzold’s site Xamarin Xamarin Forms White Paper on Xamarin Show Me The Xaml … Continue reading
Xamarin Certified Mobile Developer
Xamarin is clearly focusing on cross platform, and as part of that, and as evidence of it as well, they have phased out their iOS and Android certification and now only offer the bigger certification for Mobile Development. So I … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin: Saving and Retrieving Photos
In my previous post, I talked about using the Camera with Forms-based applications. In this post I explain how to save and then use the photos you take. Saving The Photo Once we take the photo, the first task is … Continue reading
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