Oh Android – you never make life easy do you? Recently I needed to add the ability to backup and restore Android shared preferences. And as any good Xamarin developer would do, I was using the Settings plugin from the prolific James Montemagno [https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xam.Plugins.Settings/…
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Xamarin.Forms E-Z Print
It seems in the age of phones & tablets that are as powerful as computers used to be only a few years ago, with huge amounts of on-board storage and almost always on internet where anything can be looked up instantly, that the days of printing out documents would be…
Back to School Part 2: Revenge of the Custom Bindings!
Late last summer I wrote a post on creating a custom bindable property [https://codemilltech.com/back-to-school-adding-a-custom-bindable-property-to-xamarin-forms/] 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…
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…
Welcome New Xamarin Developers!
Wow – Microsoft made a pretty big announcement today at Build 2016, no? Xamarin will now be included in all versions of Visual Studio … for FREE! This removes a pretty sizable barrier for people and companies from trying Xamarin and all of the cross platform development goodness it delivers … cost. So…