We’re always trying to reach more people with the apps we create. But to reach more people especially in different countries it’s important that our apps will support multiple languages!
To do so it’s the easiest way to add multi-language support before you gonna design your pages and hardcode every single string inside the controls or the view models.… Continue Reading
Xamarin.Forms non-resize Stack View (iOS)
Recently I’ve created custom grid control to prevent the keyboard from overlapping with other controls. This works quite well as long as you don’t have any stack views inside this custom grid. Because if you do have one inside the control the iOS renderer will add the same margin to any elements inside the stack view as it will add to the keyboard view (custom grid control).… Continue Reading
Xamarin.Forms automatically move controls when Keyboard is shown
Probably you are familiar with the scenario when you want to enter some data into an app and when the keyboard is shown it will overlap with other controls and either can hardly reach the elements lying under the keyboard or you just can’t go on using the app because of the keyboard blocks important navigation controls etc.… Continue Reading
Gradient Button in Xamarin.Forms
It’s the little things that make a UI a special one and gives a user a awesome user experience. One of these small things is the use of colors and backgrounds. To tweak your controls (we will cover buttons) this article will show you how to create a custom button with a gradient background.… Continue Reading
String to Property
How to convert a string to a property
If you’re like to work with dynamic code and sometimes you only knew to runtime which property to execute on a specific object you have to convert the name to a property. If you have to do it more than once, it would be a good idea to create a function that handles this for you 💡.… Continue Reading
Change the App Icon in Xamarin.Forms
Customizing your App
If I start a new App one of the first changes I made, is to set my own icon for both platforms to check how it’s gonna look like. Having setup a proper, and especially your own, icon feels so much better than using the default one 😃
Set the Icon
There are quite some differences in how to set the app icon for iOS and Android.… Continue Reading
Multiple Frameworks Library
I recently forked a C# library project from GitHub and noticed that it targets more than one framework. Interesed in how to create such a project I googled a bit an found the way how to target more than one framework.
Creating the library
To create such a project just create a default library project within vs.… Continue Reading
Dependency Service in Xamarin.Forms
How to use platform specific code
If you are building Xamarin.Forms Apps you will certainly encouter the problem that you have to use platform specific code to get some specific platform or hardware functions to work. Dependency Service allow you’re apps to call the platform specific code out of your shared code basis.… Continue Reading
C#-Using a Dictionary to switch
Run different actions for different types
Switch statements are a great way to run different actions for different values. It’s easy to use and it’s pretty simple to scale if new values are added. But what would you do if you want to e.g run custom actions for types and subtypes easily?🤔… Continue Reading