Accessibility, Xamarin

Exploring Keyboard accessibility in Xamarin Forms

When developing Applications it’s important to keep in mind that usability and accessibility must be on top of the list of features to add. In this post, we will be learning about keyboard accessibility. We will be having a lot of types of users with different needs or conditions, for example, users who use screen readers, or have mobility issues may need…

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Xamarin, Xamarin Essentials

Gettings Contacts with Xamarin Essentials

Sometimes we have to integrate some functionalities into our Apps that require obtaining information from contacts, previously, to achieve this we had to take more development time, but now we have very good news!!! Xamarin Essentials included it for us!💚 We can implement this simply and easily! In this post, we will be learning how to do it! 😎 First of all… What…

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UI, Xamarin

Replicating Food Delivery UI in Xamarin Forms

Howdy!!! In this case, we are going to replicate a Bill Details UI Ap obtained from Dribble. You can check the design here! Before starting, to get the best out of the post, I’ll leave you some instructional notes so that you have a better experience reproducing the UI: In the beginning, you will see an image with the original…

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Xamarin

Infogram about Xamarin Forms 5.0 😍

Hello!!! 🙋‍♀️Hoping you’re well! I am very excited about Xamarin Forms version 5.0. For this reason, I could not contain myself to publish this important news! This time I wanted to express the information with an infogram. Infographics help us make information more visual and effective. Besides that, we can read and understand information simpler and faster! Now, Let’s know…

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UI, Xamarin

Replicating Christmas Shopping UI in Xamarin Forms

Howdy!!! In this case we are going to replicate a Bill Details UI Ap obtained from Dribble. You can check the design here! Before starting, to get the best out of the post, I’ll leave you some instructional notes so that you have a better experience reproducing the UI: At the beginning, you will see an image with the original…

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Xamarin

4 tips for writing cleaner code 🤓

Howdy!!! 🙋‍♀️ For today’s post, we’ll be learning about some tips that are extremely important to keep in mind for developing an application. Let’s start! 1⃣. Indentation above all  📝 A good indentation can make the difference between whether our code is readable or not. Let’s look at the example of both scenarios presented and think … which one can we understand…

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Xamarin

Being friends with the experimental flags

Howdy!!  Thanks for being here! On this time, we shall be learning about a topic that probably in the last updates of Xamarin you have seen a lot, and maybe you don’t know exactly what it means or you may have not seen it with a good face. They are nothing more than the Experimental Flag. Why Experimental Flags? As…

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UI, Xamarin

Replicating Event App UI in Xamarin Forms

Howdy!!!  Hope you’re doing well!! This time we’re going to replicate an Events UI, this design contains two screens, one of which we are going to replicate in this article: The event detail screen. It’s very beautiful and super easy to replicate! .. But… 🧐 I would like to challenge you to build the other screen !! Do you dare!!?…

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Xamarin, Xamarin Essentials

Adding Shortcuts with Xamarin Essentials

Howdy!!  I hope you are very well and safe in your home taking care of your health and your loved ones! 💕 In this time I’m so happy to write about an amazing API recently included in the Xamarin Essentials 1.6, as is the AppActions! This allow us to create shortcuts in our Apps just using Xamarin Essentials! 💚 Besides…

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UI, Xamarin

Replicating Sneakers UI in Xamarin Forms

Howdy!!! 🙋‍♀️In this case we are going to replicate a Sneaker UI App obtained from Dribble. You can check the design here! Before starting, to get the best out of the post, I’ll leave you some instructional notes so that you have a better experience reproducing the UI: At the beginning, you will see an image with the original UI where…

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Xamarin

My personal Quality Assurance list before submitting my applications to QA

As developers, our responsibility is to create applications based on a list of specifications defined by the systems analyst in collaboration with the customer. Usually, we divide the application into deliverables that allow us to complete independent and useful functionalities for the user without having the application completely ready. It’s very important to make our applications as clean and tested…

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UI, Xamarin

Learning to use Data Caching in Xamarin Forms

Howdy! 🙋‍♀️ Thanks for being here, hoping that you’re doing well! This time I just want to show you a very interesting and useful topic for our Xamarin Forms Applications: Data caching Imagine the following scenario: You have to confirm your latest transactions in your bank account! You will say something like a  “Perfect !! I have a mobile banking application available”😎.……

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Xamarin

Quiz: Let’s practice some simple UI skills!😍

Howdy! ?‍♀️I have to confess that I really love UI practices and that’s why I decided to create this post a little differently! I have noticed that the topic of creating graphical interfaces in XAML is one of the “Most feared” that’s why I usually develop a lot of posts about UI Replication in order to show you that it’s…

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Xamarin

Getting started with Excel Files creation in Xamarin Forms

Howdy! It’s a pleasure to have you here again, this time we will be learning about a very interesting and useful topic: Generate / create Excel files for our Xamarin Forms Apps. I imagine that at some point in your life as a developer you have wondered how to do this so that’s the reason behind this post! This post will be…

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