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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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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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2 Integer-Based Extended Slider for Xamarin.Forms

I was trolling the Xamarin.Forms forum when I saw this question: Can you limit a Slider to only allow integer values? (Hopefully snapping to the next integer) I dug around a bit I found this solution on StackOverflow.  I did a quick and dirty conversion to Xamarin.Forms, but wanted to make it a little better, […]

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13 Creating a drawing app using Xamarin.Forms

So Xamarin released an update (v3) last week and it is truly a huge step forward for mobile developers.  So if you are interested in cross-platform development and haven’t reviewed what Xamarin has done, then you need to stop what you’re doing and go look. Xamarin is having a contest to showcase their new Xamarin.Forms […]

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