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…
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Sending Files to a Xamarin.Forms App - Part 1: iOS
It’s a common occurrence in mobile applications to have a file be open in one app – but need another app to use it. For example, you browsed to a PDF and find you’d like to perform some modifications to it in another app. By tapping on that PDF,…
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,…
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 [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…
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…