Posts tagged with "xamarin.forms"

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Creating a good-looking Xamarin Forms UI: Runkeeper

September 5, 2017 11:34

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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Xamarin.Forms ListView grouping and styling the jump list

August 30, 2017 15:24

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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Creating a good-looking Xamarin.Forms UI: Twitter

August 25, 2017 12:02

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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Embedding a YouTube feed in Xamarin.Forms

June 20, 2017 21:09

When building an app for a customer that has an active YouTube channel you might get the requirement to embed their YouTube channel into the app. This is actually simpler then you might think. Since YouTube is a Google product you can bet your life’s savings on the fact that there’s an API for it.

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Xamarin.Forms and the Xamarin Test Recorder

June 9, 2016 22:17

One of the recent additions to the Xamarin family of products is the Xamarin Test Recorder. What this nifty little tool does is allow you to record your UI tests while you’re navigating through your app and export them into either your codebase or the Xamarin Test Cloud.

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Out now: Snppts for Xamarin Forms!

April 26, 2016 19:30

After a few months of development we are proud to announce a new service for everyone interested in Xamarin and Xamarin Forms specifically! 

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Using custom fonts in Xamarin Forms

February 15, 2016 11:36

Xamarin Forms is a great platform for quickly making multi-platform mobile apps. Xamarin markets it as a platform that isn’t quite suited for creating complex UIs but that doesn’t necessarily have to be the case. When it comes to branding your app using a custom font can go a long way.