Category Archives for "Xamarin"

Xamarin Dev Days: Dallas

We had a huge turnout today in Dallas for Xamarin Dev Days. Here we have @JamesMontemagno and @shawnweisfeld performing an equipment check. View from the back as James was opening the day. We had a really good turnout and the sponsors kept us fed and watered so that the chance of cannibalism simply was not […]

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New Xamarin.Forms Control: WaitingPage

Last week I got into a conversation with Christine Blanda on the Xamarin Forms forum about creating a page that had a built-in Activity Indicator that could be enabled/disabled by just setting properties.  It turns out that I was at a point in one of my projects where I needed just such a component so […]

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Taking screen shots of a mobile application

There was a really great thread on the Xamarin Forms forum yesterday regarding taking screen shots of your mobile application. I thought I would share this information here to summarize the conversation. From Outside the Application Greg Shackles wrote a great article about using Xamarin UITest to generate screen shots using the built-in functionality of […]

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Beacon Idea #3: Find my friends

Xamarin is holding contest to get ideas of how beacons (iBeacons) can be used to context-aware mobile applications. I have been doing a lot of research on beacons so I thought I’d share some of my ideas. The Concept: Find my friends You are at a conference and need help locating your friends who are […]

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Extended Color Palette for Xamarin.Forms

Way back in 2006 I write an article, Cascading Style Sheet Color chart, with a link to a site that created a set of colors that matched the Behr Premium paint swatches. I thought that might be valuable in my Xamarin.Forms work so I converted their work and created an Extended Color Palette structure using […]

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2 Using the Xamarin.Forms 1.3.0 ListView.ScrollTo Method

Xamarin.Forms v1.3.0 has a really great addition which allows us to scroll to a specific location within a ListView. ScrollTo works by performing a linear search for an individual item, or an individual item within a specified group. There are two variations: ScrollTo(object, ScrollToPosition, bool) Scrolls the ListView to the item. object is an item […]

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