Animating out of an extended splashscreen
Animations are a key part of making your app feel fluent, modern and responsive. Connected animations are a very big part of this, and have been around for a...
Recent Posts
Migrating to the MVVM Light .NET Standard version
Last year I blogged about enabling PCL compatibility in .NET Standard libraries so we could use libraries that weren’t updated to .NET Standard yet. In that ...
Binding to the Window Title in UWP
I was recently in a scenario where I had a UWP app with a timer. The running timer was supposed to be displayed in the title bar of the app (the app is a UWP...
Android Floating Widgets In Xamarin
I first noticed the floating widgets when I saw Facebook Messenger on a Samsung. I really liked the idea of the chatheads with the conversation folding out w...
Building a netstandard Xamarin app with MVVM Light
Update 14/02/2018 MVVM Light has been upgraded to .NET Standard 1.0. See here and here for updated workflow.
using the surface dial as a debug tool
Update: here’s a small video of the extension in action The Surface Dial is a nifty little device, it feels great and can add some nice capabilities ...
the future of xaml styler
A while ago I forked the popular Visual Studio plugin XAML Styler. The original author had abandoned the project before Visual Studio 2013 came out. I forked...
httpclient in mobile apps
I’ve been seeing a lot of discussions lately on how to correctly use HttpClient in mobile apps, both UWP and / or Xamarin apps. In this post I’d like to shar...
xamarin forms bindable wrappanel
A wrappanel is something XAML developers are very familiar with. It’s a panel that orders its children either horizontally or vertically but when the childre...
grid column behavior–xamarin xaml vs ms xaml
There’s a small detail difference in how rows and columns in a Grid behave in Xamarin Forms vs Microsoft XAML. A small difference but with quite a big impact...