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…
Tag: Xamarin Forms
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”😎.……
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…
Replicating Streaming UI App in Xamarin Forms
Howdy!!! ?♀In this case we are going to replicate a Streaming 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…
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…
Replicating Real Estate Property details UI in Xamarin Forms
Howdy!!! ?♀ In this case we are going to replicate a Real Estate UI 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…
Using biometric identification in Xamarin Forms
It’s very likely that some of the applications that you have installed on your device uses fingerprints to simplify authentication before executing certain important or sensitive actions. We usually see this type of features in banking applications where you decide whether to access with your credentials or your fingerprint! And honestly I love using my fingerprint because it saves me…
Replicating Schedule UI in Xamarin Forms
Howdy!!! ?♀ In this case we are going to replicate a Calendar / Schedule UI 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…
Learning about Converters in Xamarin Forms
When we are developing an application it is normal that we need to transfer data of the same type, as we already know to do this, we use Data Bindings. Doing this is very easy, especially if we can do the conversion implicitly. But what happens when we want to pass data with different values? To do it we use…
Working with connectivity in Xamarin Forms
I think you have been in a situation that you lost internet connection and you stay without knowing what happened since nothing notified you ?♀. .. And it is in bad taste since as users we practically do not know what is happening and we simply believe that the application had stopped working ?. To avoid this, as Developers, is…
Quick tip: Handling Dark mode in our iOS App
Howdy!!!🙋♀️ In this case, I just want to give you a quick tip about handling the Dark mode on iOS. Appearance handling came to iOS from version 13 onwards, thanks to this update, the users who own these devices will be able to adapt the appearance of their device as they like between light and dark. Because of this, I think…
Replicating Burger UI App in Xamarin Forms
Howdy!!! ?♀In this case we are going to replicate a Burger App UI 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…
(Part 2) Replicating Flight UI: Working with the XAML
Howdy!!! ?♀ I’ll continue doing what I love ?In this case we are going to replicate a Flight UI obtained from Dribble from Gleb Kuznetsov✈. You can check it here! . To get the best out of this post, if you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend reading the first part of this article named “(Part 1) Replicating Flight UI: Preparing…
(Part 1) Replicating Flight UI: Preparing the project to work with MVVM
Howdy!!! ?♀I’ll continue doing what I love ? In this case we are going to replicate a Flight UI obtained from Dribble, designed by Gleb Kuznetsov✈. You can check it here! But this time we will carry out a slightly different dynamic than the previous articles by explaining the structure first! If you are starting with Xamarin Forms, this is a very…
#SomeTips: Best practices for UI Handling!
When designing user interfaces, there are may ways to handle / create elements into it. We know that the way we do it can either save us many lines of code or not, and also can have an impact in the performance of our application. At the Microsoft 365 LIVE event I talked about this topic and now I wanted to write…