Adding custom fonts into a Xamarin.Forms project might be something know how to do already. And that's because Xamarin has an entire documentation page [https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/user-interface/text/fonts/] written on how to do it! But ... as is often the case ... I ran…
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Posts regarding the Android operating system
Sending Files to a Xamarin.Forms App - Part 2: Android
In the first part of this series [https://codemilltech.com/sending-files-to-a-xamarin-forms-app-part-1-ios/] – I looked at how to register a Xamarin.Forms app on iOS to receive and display a PDF. In this post I’ll do the same thing – but this time on Android. The Scenario Again the overall scenario we’…
Making It Snow! Xamarin.Forms and CocosSharp and Particles
It goes without saying that I’m a big fan of Xamarin.Forms. It’s the first framework I evaluate when taking on a new project. I love all of the out of the box goodness it provides – easy MVVM (especially the binding [https://codemilltech.com/back-to-school-part-2-revenge-of-the-custom-bindings/]), layout engine, and…
Bindable Native Views - Xamarin.Forms 2.3.3 Look Ahead
In the last post on the new features of Xamarin Forms 2.3.3 we took a look at Platform Specifics [https://codemilltech.com/platform-specifics-xamarin-forms-2-3-3-look-ahead/] – both how to create one and how to consume one. This time around we’re going to turn our attention to bindable native views in…
Back It On Up! Android and Xamarin and Backups!
Oh Android – you never make life easy do you? Recently I needed to add the ability to backup and restore Android shared preferences. And as any good Xamarin developer would do, I was using the Settings plugin from the prolific James Montemagno [https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xam.Plugins.Settings/…
Xamarin.Forms E-Z Print
It seems in the age of phones & tablets that are as powerful as computers used to be only a few years ago, with huge amounts of on-board storage and almost always on internet where anything can be looked up instantly, that the days of printing out documents would be…