API Convergence Gets Real in Windows 10
Last year, I wrote a universal app named Pic Me (later renamed to “Picture Me”) for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. The main reason I wrote it was that […]
Using AdaptiveTrigger to Build Adaptive UIs in Windows 10
Like a lot of developers, I’ve been watching the development of Windows 10 and digesting all the features Microsoft announced at BUILD. And I’m eager to build apps that target […]
Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers, Part 5
Making Xamarin Forms Richer with Custom Visual Elements The BoxView class is handy for drawing rectangles in a Xamarin Forms UI. On Windows Phone, a BoxView renders a Rectangle element. […]
Implementing John Conway’s Game of Life in Xamarin Forms
John Conway’s Game of Life, presented to the world in the October 1970 issue of Scientific American magazine, is one of the most popular computer simulations of all time. In […]
Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers, Part 4
If you’ve read the previous posts in this series, you’re aware that custom renderers are the keys that unlock the doors to advanced customizations in Xamarin Forms. In Part 1, […]
Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers, Part 3
One of the limitations of Xamarin Forms that frequently pains developers is the fact that the Label control supports text wrapping and text truncation, but it doesn’t support both at […]
Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers, Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced custom renderers in Xamarin Forms and presented a pair of custom renderers – one for Android, and one for Windows Phone – […]
Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers, Part 1
Xamarin Forms includes an assortment of “views,” more commonly known as controls, to help you build cross-platform UIs using XAML. Each control has a default appearance, and each control exposes […]
Xamarin Forms, Contoso Cookbook, and Azure: Three Great Tastes that Taste Great Together
My previous post introduced a Xamarin Forms version of Contoso Cookbook that runs on Windows Phone, Android, and iOS. For the benefit of developers learning Xamarin Forms – especially those […]