What are the available SQLite attributes and what do they do? SQLite can be a very powerful and simple to use plugin/extension for any mobile app, the attributes it defines can be very useful and it it worth taking the time to understand all of them. - read more.
3 Aug 2016 - 1 CommentsAndroid emulators can be a bit slow and when I say slow, I mean REALLY slow. This article attempts to cover a two of the most prominent issues when using an Android emulator with Xamarin. Its speed and how buggy the debugging can be. If that makes sense. :/ - read more.
21 Jul 2016Sometimes Xamarin can be full of bugs, scroll views and z index are one of them. - read more.
17 Jul 2016Understanding simple select statements and how they are used to select data/records/rows from a table with an overview of how to use indexes as a go further exercise. - read more.
11 Jul 2016Google Cloud Messaging or GCM for short can be used in Xamarin for both Android and iOS as a service to provide notifications from your server to your mobile device and back again. Using this within Xamarin Forms, you'll be able to create applications that sent/recieve messages and also display notifications. - read more.
1 Jul 2016 - 1 CommentsXamarin Forms can sometimes be annoying with things that seem so simple and trivial, for example... Web Views can't have an automatic height set, for this you'll need a custom renderer for each device type you're building for. - read more.
18 May 2016 - 10 CommentsI'm not gonna write massive paragraphs about his one, but simply provide a nice example of how to implement desktop notifications for browsers running webkit in JavaScript. Who knows maybe Internet Explorer will support it some time soon? - read more.
26 Feb 2016SQLite has two API's available, the synchronous and the asynchronous API's. It's easy to set a primary key with the synchronous API because you'll be typing the SQL yourself, however the asynchronous API is much easier to use for people with less SQL knowledge and requires much less code. It's just hard sometimes to get your head around the initial setup, as is the case when setting a primary key. You'll kick yourself when you find out how. - read more.
25 Feb 2016 - 2 CommentsEver encounter the 'Cannot find symbol monoandroidsplash in TrialSplashScreen.java' error with Xamarin in Microsoft Visual Studio just after purchasing a license (Indie or Business) and then attemptin... - read more.
13 Feb 2016Route hijacking will allow you to use custom models and populate them before the view gets called/rendered, here's how to do it and how to post forms to a route hijacking controller. - read more.
11 Feb 2016 - 2 Comments