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Posted on 7th February 20197th February 2019

Creating an encyclopedia page in Xamarin.Forms

If you frequent this blog you probably know I like creating cool-looking stuff in Xamarin.Forms. Since that’s what I like doing, why would I stop? So here’s another one!

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Posted on 30th November 20182nd January 2019

Xamarin.Forms in Space!

As you may have seen from reading other content on this blog I dabble in the world of cryptocurrency. To help me on my position sizing I figured I’d create a little calculator app. Obviously, if you know me, that has to look sexy. So I decided to go on a journey into space using Xamarin.Forms!

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Posted on 9th October 201828th November 2018

Creating a parallax carousel in Xamarin.Forms

A while ago I wrote a small tutorial on creating a simple carousel for your Xamarin.Forms app. That post also showed off a cool parallax effect on a carousel. I’ve always wanted to come back to that effect, let’s get this show on the road!

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Posted on 19th March 2018

Creating a simple but good-looking app tutorial

A lot of apps currently in stores have some sort of walkthrough or tutorial screen that walks you through the basic functionality of an app. Let’s see what kind of things go into making one of those shall we?

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Posted on 17th November 2017

5 cool things announced at Microsoft Connect 2017

Microsoft Connect 2017 in New York

Microsoft Connect 2017 has come and gone and a lot of new awesome stuff was announced across the board. I’m partial to mobile development using Xamarin and the whole Devops process using VSTS, so here’s 5 things from the mobile/devops space that I thought were pretty cool!  Continue reading “5 cool things announced at Microsoft Connect 2017”

Posted on 20th September 201720th September 2017

Creating a good-looking Xamarin Forms UI: Spotify

It seems like people really like this kind of content, so I decided to keep it up for now. This is the third instalment in this series already and this time we’re going to be taking a look at the Spotify UI!

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Posted on 11th September 201711th September 2017

Using Effects in Xamarin Forms

Developers can use Effects in Xamarin Forms to customize native controls and add some styling of their own. But why not simply use a custom renderer to achieve the same thing? While that is certainly possible there are some benefits to Effects. Continue reading “Using Effects in Xamarin Forms”

Posted on 5th September 20174th September 2017

Creating a good-looking Xamarin Forms UI: Runkeeper

Running!

My previous post about creating a fancy Xamarin Forms UI was a whole lot of fun to do and I got some awesome feedback so it’s time for another. Since running is one of my hobbies I see a whole lot of this app up close. It’s both as simple in design as it is functional which makes it a great case for this; Runkeeper!

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Posted on 30th August 201729th August 2017

Xamarin Forms ListView grouping and styling the jump list

When creating a Xamarin Forms application there’s almost no getting around using a ListView component at some point. When you have a lot of items to display you might even consider adding ListView grouping. But how does that work?

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Posted on 25th August 201726th August 2017

Creating a good-looking Xamarin Forms UI: Twitter

I love tinkering with UI. There, I said it. Even though I’m a developer first and foremost I cannot help the fact that any mobile app UI I create has to look fancy. However most of my development work takes place in Xamarin Forms. Can those two worlds be combined?

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Hi, I’m Steven Thewissen, developer, Microsoft MVP, author and blogger 🙂 I create mobile apps with Xamarin and love getting creative with Photoshop. I’m also a gamer on Xbox One, play soccer, love cycling and enjoy my daily dose of superheroes. Am still studying to be one myself. Oh, and I’m also Dutch.

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devnlSteven Thewissen@devnl·
14 Feb

Just finished pushing my newest project to Github, please welcome the #Xamarin Forms PancakeView 😂 A basic layout with support for gradients, rounded corners, shadows and borders. Could use some more hands squashing the final bugs before making a NuGet if anyone's interested!

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devnlSteven Thewissen@devnl·
12 Feb

One thing I cannot wrap my head around is why it is so hard to create a #Xamarin Forms view that has rounded corners, a rounded border, shadow AND clips the content within the view. Or am I missing something here? 🤔

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devnlSteven Thewissen@devnl·
7 Feb

Want to see how this was built or you just want the code to start playing around with it? Check out my blogpost about it! https://t.co/M72Q9ri1at @xamarinhq #Xamarin #XamarinForms #UI

Steven Thewissen@devnl

Just messing about with @xamarinhq Forms, doing some more fun UI implementations. Will put this up on my Github soon. #Xamarin #UI

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