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…
Shared Projects
Banish Compiler Directives From Shared Projects!
Shared Projects definitely take their share of bashing - if you spend any time at all talking to somebody who used Shared Projects in their app - they'll spend the entire conversation staring at the ground, eventually apologize profusely and then offer to buy you lunch - because…
View Model First Navigation Part 2 - The Devil's In The Details
Hi! I released a NuGet package that does VM First Navigation! This article here still contains valuable info - but this other article [https://codemilltech.com/xamarin-forms-viewmodel-first-navigation-library/] has the necessary info to start using the VM First NuGet package [https://www.nuget.org/packages/CodeMill.VMFirstNav/].The previous post on…
Xamarin.Forms Shared Project XAML Headaches
At first I was going title this post Creating a Xamarin.Forms Shared Project App? Do This First! And the contents of that post were going to solve one of the problems that every developer faces when creating a Forms application using shared projects. Namely, that of referencing custom controls…
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…