In the last article we talked about how to add custom fonts to any Xamarin.Forms app. Despite the numerous starts and stops that I encountered, the process turned out to be pretty easy, all in all. However, the XAML needed to add custom fonts is a little bit verbose.…
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Attached Properties - What Are They Good For?
For the longest time I knew what Attached Properties in Xamarin.Forms were – the most famous example being setting a control’s position within a Grid … <Label Text="I'm attached!" Grid.Row="1" Grid.Column="2" /> … but to be honest, I just…
Xamarin Forms - Bindable Picker(!!)
I’m rather starting to like doing these look aheads to features coming out in future versions of Xamarin.Forms. It’s really cool tracing through the source code to see how a new feature is being implemented and coming together. And today we’re going to talk about a…
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 – 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 XAML! Again this feature…
Back to School Part 2: Revenge of the Custom Bindings!
Late last summer I wrote a post on creating a custom bindable property using Xamarin.Forms. I titled it “Back to School” because I wrote it around … well … back to school time. Since then however, the Xamarin.Forms team has seen fit to deprecate the function I wrote about that…
Xamarin Forms - View Model First Navigation
Hi! I released a NuGet package that does VM First Navigation! This article here still contains valuable info - but this other article has the necessary info to start using the VM First NuGet package. I recently started a brand spanking new Xamarin Forms project and I wanted to have…