In the last post [https://codemilltech.com/akavache-is-aka-awesome/] we talked about Akavache and frankly how awesome it is. In this post we’re going to take a simple Xamarin Forms application which uses a “home grown” caching mechanism and refactor it into one which uses Akavache. We’ll see how…
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Akavache is AKA Awesome!
In the last post [https://codemilltech.com/cold-hard-data-cache-or-saving-our-users-money/] we covered how to implement data caching in a cross platform application using Xamarin. And we also showed why providing a data cache to the users of our mobile applications is important. Why caching is important * Network resiliency * Perceived app performance However,…
Cold Hard Data Cache - Or Saving Our Users Money!
After that last post on SQLite [https://codemilltech.com/artisanal-cross-platform-data-persistence-a-sqlite-sqlite-net-primer/] , let’s explore one of the best things we can do with persisted data for the users of our mobile applications … provide a cache of data. And even better … the data cache that we’re going to give them is…
Artisanal Cross Platform Data Persistence - A SQLite & SQLite.Net Primer
Hola and bon jour – my name is Rueben and I painstakingly handcraft local artisanal custom software. Hi – my name is Matt and I’m going to translate Rueben’s hipster speak into normal English. He means when you hire him to create an app, he camps out in your backyard…
Cross Platform Preprocessor Directive Blues - Or Finding Cheer With Shared Projects
(Ba ba… ba bump) From the day I was born (Ba ba… ba bump) I was writing cross platform apps utilizing Shared Projects code (Ba ba… ba bump) Then I started adding platform specific features (Ba ba… ba bump) And my code became a mess of hash codes and everything…
Climbing Gumdrop Mountain - Or How To Create Xamarin Android Bindings
Remember way, way back into the distant past (yeah, it’s been a while since I posted) to the Stranger In A Strange Land [https://codemilltech.com/stranger-in-a-strange-land-binding-objective-c-libraries-to-xamarin/] post about Xamarin iOS bindings? And how strange Objective-C is, at least to a C# developer trying to bind an Objective-C library…