When developing an application, it’s very likely that much of its development will require interaction with a web service. We can use different tools to connect and retrieve data from web services but in this case we will learn how to do it using Refit and we will split it in the following topics: ➖ Things that you need to…
Tag: Xamarin
Replicating Exotic Fruits App in Xamarin Forms
Howdy!!! ?♀ I’m continue doing what I love ?In this case we are going to replicate an Exotic Fruits UI obtained from Dribble. You can check it 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…
Inheriting styles in Xamarin Forms
When designing an application it’s common and also an excellent practice to work with styles, especially when we have controls with the same visual characteristics. But we also encounter scenarios where two or more controls which will need different styles but with most of the visual properties exactly the same, so what do we normally do in these cases? ……
Launching Apps in Xamarin Forms
I imagine that at some point when you are developing an application you have faced a requirement that it needs to open another application from within the one you are developing. This type of requirements that involve the call of third-party applications is very common, for example when the user wants to make some kind of connection with social networks…
Let’s replicate a Travel App in Xamarin Forms
Howdy!!! ?♀ In this #LoveMonth let’s continue with the third post of the UI series for February! In this case we are going to replicate a Travel UI obtained from Dribble. You can check it 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…
Let’s replicate a Banking Profile UI in Xamarin Forms
Howdy!!! ?♀ In this #LoveMonth, let’s continue with the second post of the UI series for February! In this case we are going to replicate a Banking Profile UI obtained from Dribble. You can check it here! ⚠ Before starting, to get the best out of the post, I’ll leave you some instructional notes so that you have a better…
Replicating user profile UI in Xamarin Forms
Howdy!!! ?♀ For February, as #LoveMonth, I decided to create a post series on a topic that I ? !! … So weekly, I’ll be replicating some UIs starting from basic to more complex. Together we can create great things, so are you ready to start it!? ? The first article of this series is a basic UI that we will…
Touching base with Preferences in Xamarin Forms
Sometimes we can face situations where we will have to keep some important information stored that we want to always have at hand to use in our application. ? For example, our App may have a login that you access with your email. For a best user experience we can provide an email remembering option instead of writing it every…
Replicating Food UI Sample
Well, I tell you that I really LOVE this!?I’m always searching different screen designs for mobile applications and I saw this one for a food application that I liked and when I saw it I definitely wanted to replicate it! The design was obtained from the Dribble following link. We will be building the first screen! Tools that I used…
Learning about Embedded Images in Xamarin Forms
Hello everybody! I hope that you all had excellent Christmas & New Year parties and had a great time with your loved ones! ??Now is the time to continue learning! (Voice saying yes ?) In this article will be learning about Embedded Images. So… ? I imagine that at some point in your developer life when you are adding images to…
Understanding the differences between Margin & Padding and Translation properties
Hi!! And merry Christmas to all! This time we will be learning about two things I have received questions about, they may be easy to confuse because both properties handle the same values and behaves similarly, I’m talking about the Padding and Margin properties, on many occasions we tend to use them as “equivalent” properties, but it is important to understand what the difference…
Replicating great UI in Xamarin Forms
Hello, for this post I reproduced a super nice UI that was inspired by Mountain Trip Design and I listed the themes I used to build it! Tools that I used To replicate the Mountain Trip UI, I used the following tools: ?Visual State Manager – It allow us the make visual changes to our controls depending on the state.…
Getting started with Visual State Manager (VSM) in Xamarin Forms
When we are developing an application we usually face requirements that needs some visual changes depending of a specific control’s state. For example, we may need to increase the height of an Entry while the user is writing, but we may also need to modify the text color, the most important is that all of this must happen when the…
Adding custom fonts in Xamarin Forms
Often, when we need to apply a design we find different Fonts to which we think fits best with the design, for that reason use a custom Font. That’s what we’re going to be learning in this post!! Let’s start! For the example I will use the Cute Jelyfish font, you can find it here. The first that we have to learn is…
Replicating Facebook Profile UI in Xamarin Forms
Hello guys!! This time, I created a post that’s a little different than my usual posts, I built a Facebook Profile UI! So you’ll be able to the whole code, I will list the elements I used and leave some explanatory posts so you can understand them better in case you have not used them yet. Let me tell you…