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Xamarin Forms and Data
Xamarin happily supports two-way binding, and the mechanism will be intensely familiar to XAML programmers. The more I work with Xamarin, the more I think this is where Silverlight went to heaven. [...
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When a Product Manager of legacy confronts UX.
I’ve been sitting on this blog post for quite some time trying to articulate how I see the two sets of roles interacting and co-existing with one another. I’ve been in both these roles both...
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Xamarin iOS Storyboards: Getting Started
The first three posts in this series were all about Xamarin Forms. That is because Forms are terrific, convenient and new. But they are not the only game in town. It is possible to write iOS...
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Porting an OpenGL ES2 app to Windows 8 Store App
(Screenshot of 3D anatomy taken from Heart Decide Windows 8.1 Store app) This technical blog post assumes the reader is familiar with creating an OpenGL ES2 app on any platform, and the fundamentals...
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Xamarin Storyboards: Navigation
In the previous installment in this series, I left off with binding data. Today we take a look at page navigation and passing that data around. Navigation with Storyboards is accomplished with Segues....
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Xamarin Storyboards and Custom Cells
In the previous posting in this series we navigated to a details page, but the display of the details left a lot to be desired. We had a single string of information and not enough room to display it...
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Learning Xamarin: Building an App
I’ve set out on an adventure; not only to learn Xamarin inside out, but to build an app, in public. I don’t know if I’ll finish it, I don’t know if it will work, and I don’t know just how … Continue...
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Xamarin–Converting int to string
In yesterday’s posting, I complained that Forms do not (yet) automatically convert strings to integers (or vice versa) and thus was “forced” to declare my integer values as strings. Today, I work...
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Learning Xamarin–Extending the App
This is part of the on-going series of posts on Learning Xamarin; a complete index to the series can be found here. In the previous installment, I modified the application that I began in this...
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Learning Xamarin: Tinkering with the App
This is part of the on-going series of posts on Learning Xamarin; a complete index to the series can be found here. In the previous installment, I modified the application that I began in this...
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