Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
Scroll To in Xamarin.Forms Grouping
In a recent blog-post I showed how to use the new Scroll To feature in Xamarin.Forms. In this posting I’ll show how to go to a particular entry within a group and also how to go to a particular entry. … Continue reading
ScrollTo in Xamarin.Forms ListView
Today we tackle another new feature in 1.3: ScrollTo. This allows us to scroll to the beginning of a ListView or to the end or to a particular entry. Let’s return to the grouping code we created here. We’re going … Continue reading
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My Favorite Books of 2014
In 2014 I read (according to GoodReads) 47 Kindle books and (according to Audible) 101 audible books. This year I read zero books on paper. Here is my short list of the very best: Far from the Tree Ulysses What If? … Continue reading
Product Recommendation -SaneBox for Email
I don’t usually write about individual cool products, but if email is making you crazy this is a product you really want to check out. It is called SaneBox and it separates your mail for you automagically into inbox, BuilkMail, View … Continue reading
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Triggers in Xamarin.Forms 1.3
Yesterday, I wrote about one of the new features in Xamarin.Forms 1.3 (Technology Preview 2), Styles. Today I’ll take a first look at Triggers. Triggers The key idea of Triggers is “When this happens, do that.” More specifically, “When this … Continue reading
Xamarin.Forms: Styles
Xamarin.Forms 1.3 is now available in Community Preview 2 (the final community preview before release). While this is not a release version, it is close and worth taking a look at. It offers three new killer features: Styles Triggers Behaviors … Continue reading
Xamarin.Forms – Groups and Jump Lists
My goal is to create a simple list of Employees with the employees grouped by the first letter of their name. I’d also like to create a jump list to allow the user to jump to a particular letter in the list. … Continue reading
Using Mocks to test Xamarin
Many of us believe that Unit Testing is critical in any non-trivial programming. But Unit Testing can be difficult, especially the use of fakes. The most common fake is a Mock; unfortunately they are also the most confusing. There are a number … Continue reading
Xamarin.Forms And Resources
Often, there will be multiple views in your form that share the same values (e.g., font size, color, etc.). There are a couple ways you can handle this: Create a resource dictionary and then refer to the resources using the … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast #135 – Miguel de Icaza on Xamarin
Miguel de Icaza is one of the most respected technologists in the industry, known for starting the Gnome and Mono projects. He is the CTO and co-founder of Xamarin and a genuinely nice person. Today we talk about Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms and mobile programming. … Continue reading
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Get Insight into your Xamarin Application
Xamarin now offers a crash and analytics program that integrates beautifully into their applications, including Xamarin Forms. It is very easy to get started, and in this article we’ll look at a very simple example… …There are a few boiler … Continue reading
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