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…
Tag: Xamarin Forms
Exploring Automation Properties in Xamarin Forms
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…
Exploring Keyboard accessibility in Xamarin Forms
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…
Simple way to use Maps with Xamarin Essentials
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…
Replicating Book Worm UI in Xamarin Forms
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…
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!!!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…
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, 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…
Infogram about Xamarin Forms 5.0 š
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…
Knowing the File Picker in Xamarin Forms
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…
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, 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…
4 tips for writing cleaner code š¤
Howdy!!! šāāļøĀ For today’s post, we’ll be learning about some tips that are extremely important to keep in mind for developing an application. Letās start! 1ā£.Ā Indentation above allĀ š A good indentation can make the difference between whether our code is readable or not. Letās look at the example of both scenarios presented and think ā¦ which one can we understand…
Replicating Bill Details 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, 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…
Being friends with the experimental flags
Howdy!! Ā 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…
Replicating Event App UI in Xamarin Forms
Howdy!!! Ā 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… š§ I would like to challenge you to build the other screen !! Do you dare!!?…
Replicating Sneakers UI in Xamarin Forms
Howdy!!! šāāļøIn this case we are going to replicate a Sneaker UI App obtained from Dribble. You can check the designĀ 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 UI where…