Author Archives: Jesse Liberty
Learning Xamarin: Custom Controls in Xamarin Forms
Xamarin Forms are the most exciting library to come along in a long time; certainly for mobile programmers. They bring a whole new option to cross platform development: an abstraction layer that lets you write once, and run native on … Continue reading
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Learning Xamarin: Forms and Web Viewer
In yesterday’s post we looked at using HTTP with Web Forms and creating a list of blog posts from an RSS feed. Today we’ll add the ability to tap on one entry in the list and see that blog post … Continue reading
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Yet Another Podcast Show 126–Mike Bluestein from Xamarin
Yet Another Podcast returns with a great show with Mike Bluestein from Xamarin, talking about Xamarin Past, Present and Future. Xamarin recently released Xamarin 3, and with it Xamarin Forms, greatly simplifying the process of creating cross platform applications. Xamarin … Continue reading
Xamarin Forms and HTTP
Let’s say we’re building an application, and we want to list the titles and publication dates from an RSS feed. We can do this using a ListView, but we have to get the feed, and to do that we need … Continue reading
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New Pluralsight Course: Testing AngularJS From Scratch
Incredibly pleased to announce the release of my latest Pluralsight course: Testing AngularJS From Scratch In this course, you will learn how to create software using Behavior Driven Development, a test-first, agile approach to creating Angular programs using Jasmine. I … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin: Tabbed Pages
Until now, our application has used simple “push” navigation, creating a stack that the user can pop out of to return to the calling screen. It would be convenient, however, to add tabs to the opening screen where the user … Continue reading
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Learning Xamarin–Adding Pages
The application that I began describing here (and which is part of this series) is almost done. Today, we’ll add a new first page to allow the user to track more than one appliance type. This will require minor changes … Continue reading
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Album of the Week: Within Temptation’s The Silent Force
The only thing better than discovering new music that you love is to find it in your own collection and realize that you’ve forgotten about it. There is a special, if poignant joy in rediscovery. Silent Force by Within Temptation … Continue reading
Learning Xamarin–Persistence with SQLite
Virtually every interesting application deals with data, and very often you want that data to survive your session with the app, so that you can return to it next time. To accomplish this, you must write your data somewhere, … Continue reading
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Learning Xamarin: Tinkering with the App
This is part of the on-going series of posts on Learning Xamarin; a complete index to the series can be found here. In the previous installment, I modified the application that I began in this posting. Today, I’m going to … Continue reading
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Learning Xamarin–Extending the App
This is part of the on-going series of posts on Learning Xamarin; a complete index to the series can be found here. In the previous installment, I modified the application that I began in this posting. Today, we extend that … Continue reading
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