A few years ago, I made a post called “Replicating Facebook Profile UI in Xamarin Forms” which I loved to do š and I was thinking that over time languages, Frameworks have new functionalities which are designed to make our Apps more effective, for this reason, it’s important to keep them updated.Ā In the following paragraph I give you some important…
Bindings are a very good help to make the developer experience easier by allowing to dynamically load data into our controls!Ā But I want to stop for a moment to analyze some important alerts: ā There’s no compile-time validation of binding expressions: By adding the values āāin the Binding we can only verify if they are correct in RunTime, we also…
Have you ever had the need to make decisions based on certain information about the device? š Yes? This is for you, if not, you will probably do it in the future, join me in this article and you will see how easy it is thanks Deviceinf, API provided by Xamarin Essentials.! š Letās start! What isĀ DeviceInfo? DeviceInfoĀ is a class…
Howdy!!! In this case we are going to replicate a Good Mood UI App obtained from Dribble. I hope this is use for you! š Before starting, to get the best out of the post, Iāll leave you some instructional notes so that you have a better experience reproducing the UI: At the beginning, you will see an image with…
When I heard about Xamarin Community Toolkit, I fell in love with the wonderful things I could do with its help! I love how a single package gives us many useful featuresĀ that we didn’t have in one place before, but now we do! š This time let’s learn how to add shadows thanks to XCT! š¤Ā Before starting the explanation,Ā let’s know…
Howdy!!! In this case we are going to replicate a Fashion UI App obtained from Dribble. You can check the design here! Ā Previously I created an article on how to start creating this UI, thinking about how to divide the rows and columns, I recommend you take a look, the name isĀ “Getting started with a UI and not die trying…
Throughout my career at Xamarin, working with XAML has been one of my main passions. šš One of the most common comments I have heard is that “I want to start creating UIs but I don’t know how to start.” And precisely for this reason, it inspired me to make this post, I want to share the tips that I use…
Imagine that you are creating an application that can read aloud the description of each element you are interacting with! This would be great because this will allow a greater number of users to use your App, for example, a person with a reduced visual field will be very happy with this!šĀ This is called Accessibility and itās extremely important…
When developing Applications itās 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,Ā users who use screen readers, or have mobility issuesĀ may need…
Maps are very useful in our applications, theyĀ allow us to display in a graphic way the location of the desired place. The fact of being able to identify a location, through a Map, within our application makes our users have a better experience. Let us imagine the following two scenarios: š±App A:The user has a list of restaurants and will…
Howdy!!! In this case we are going to replicate a Book Worm UI App obtained from Dribble. You can check the design here! Before starting, to get the best out of the post, Iāll 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…
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!!!Ā Xamarin EssentialsĀ included it for us!šĀ We can implement this simply and easily! In this post, we will be learning how to do it! š First of allā¦ What…
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, Iāll 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…
Hello!!! šāāļøHoping 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…
Howdy! šāāļø Happy new year!! šWelcome to my first post of the year! This time we will be learning about a very interesting topic that was recently included in Xamarin Essentials, this is the File Picker!! š® First of allā¦ What do I need? Let’s add some platform settings. To implement it, follow the instructions added below: We have more…