Things I Think Are Cool is a blog series where I talk about things I have found interesting and helpful. They can be time savers, productivity tools, podcasts, books, products, or even people. If you're using the MVVM pattern in Xamarin.Forms, then most likely you're…
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Fantastic Fonts in Forms Without the Fuss
In the last article [https://codemilltech.com/fantastic-fonts-in-xamarin-forms/] 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…
Fantastic Fonts in Xamarin.Forms
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…
Persist Whatever You Want With Xamarin.Forms
I'll admit, until recently, I was blissfully unaware that Xamarin.Forms has a baked-in persistence mechanism in the form of a static IDictionary object in the App class. This property is called, of all things, Properties and has the signature of IDictionary<string, object>. You can…
My Xamarin.Forms Pluralsight Course!
On Friday, February 24, my first Pluralsight course [https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/xamarin-forms-moving-beyond-basics?utm_source=codemilltechblog&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=authordemo] went live - and the course is on one of my favorite subjects - Xamarin.Forms! I wanted to give you a little "behind…
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’…