Shared Images for Xamarin with Resizetizer NT Images in Xamarin, and mobile apps in general have always been a pain point for me. For most apps, this means for every image you want to use, you'll need to resize it 5 times for each android display density, 3 times for iOS,
How to Fix the dreaded 'Version conflict' NuGet error in your Xamarin.Android projects It's a sunny day, your coffee is still hot, and you're ready to take on the world. You go to install a NuGet package into your Xamarin project, and that's when your day starts to fall apart: Package restore failed. This is not what
Switching back to iOS - The aftermath So, awhile back I wrote about how I was determined to give iOS another try, particularly with the iPhone X. I genuinely, honestly expected to be back to Android at the end of this experiment, but I decided to give it two weeks at
From iOS, to Android, and back again? Anyone that knows me, knows mobile has been my passion for years. Even before what we now know as the smart phone, I was fascinated with mobile devices and what
Cake #load url: One of the most underrated features in Cake is quite possibly the ability to chain multiple scripts together by using the #load preprocessor directive. I find this feature really helpful in setting up some commonly used Tasks, functions. I also make heavy use of
cake Debugging Cake on macOS with Mono Now you can debug your cake build scripts in Visual Studio Code with full support for breakpoints, locals, and variable inspection!
not-mobile Ghost + Docker + Caffeine = New Blog History of a blog Some time ago I decided static blog generators (namely octopress) were not for me any longer as I had to always fight with them when I
android App Shortcuts in Xamarin on Android 7.1 With the Pixel release, Android 7.1 is upon us and it’s never too early to start playing with some new features! One of the features I’ve been
.net PushSharp 3.0 - The Push Awakens! Some of you may be familiar with a little library called PushSharp. If you’re not, it’s a C# library that helps developers send push notifications to various platforms.
cake Would you like some C# in your Cake? I will not blog about food. I will not blog about food. I will not blog about food… but I really like cake! Ok, all cheese (also delicious) aside, Cake
xamarin CyanogenMod for your Xamarin apps CyanogenMod is an aftermarket Android firmware which keeps growing in popularity. With the first release of their platform SDK, it’s now possible to harness the power of the Quick
xamarin Improvements coming to Xamarin Google Play Services Update (June 22, 2015) It’s been a month since I blogged about upcoming Google Play Services changes, and a lot has happened since then 🙂 Google released yet another version of Google Play Services (7.5) so we’ve accounted for this update. We
xamarin New and Improved Xamarin Studio Launcher UPDATE – Nov 29, 2016: By popular demand, I’ve created an update which is compatible with both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio for Mac. It’s now called MS Solution Launcher and can be found on GitHub (source code and binary release). Go Check
xamarin Smarter Xamarin Android Support v4 / v13 Packages If you’ve ever built an Android app, you’ve probably used the Android Support libraries. Google created these as a way to enable developers to use new features on older Android versions. The most common Support library is arguably Support-v4, however as older
xamarin Unifying Google Play Services Once upon a time, you may have noticed there were a lot of choices when it came to adding Google Play Services to your Xamarin.Android apps. This was always a bit confusing. Which version should you use for your app? Should you use
xamarin Finding your Android app's MD5 or SHA1 Signature from your keystore If you’ve ever used Google Maps or Amazon App Services in your Android app, you’ve probably gone through the pain of having to find an MD5 or SHA1 signature to give to the service so they could generate an API Key for
xamarin What are App Links? So there’s this new thing called App Links. It’s backed by Facebook and some other big names, so you know it’s going to gain at least a bit of traction. But the problem is, everyone seems to have a hard time
xamarin Such Android API levels, much confuse. Wow. I have been bitten more than once by the confusion of Android’s many API levels when building Xamarin.Android apps. It gets even more complex when you start referencing other libraries that target different API levels. Just the other day I had an
mac iTunes Media HotKey Disabler This simple application will allow you to disable or enable iTunes from listening to when you press the media keys (Play / Pause) on your keyboard. This is great for applications such as gTunes which make use of the hot keys but cannot themselves prevent
xamarin iOS7: Fun times with the new Full Screen Layout! In a mad rush, I had to prepare an app for iOS7 after its release. Yes, I know, shame on me for not listening to everyone telling me to start getting my apps ready early. How bad could it be anyway? For the most
xamarin iOS7 Recipe: Background Fetching This is my entry into the Xamarin Recipe Cook-Off. Recipes, in Xamarin terms, are very simple demonstrations of how a single feature or piece of functionality is implemented. I thought background fetching would be useful to many developers, and it’s pretty easy to
xamarin How to Auto Wire Up Android Activity Views in Xamarin.Android One thing that’s occasionally bothered me was how verbose it is in Android to wire up views from a layout, in an activity. I finally was fed up enough to write a simple little helper that does this based on reflection. Consider the
xamarin Xamarin Studio Launcher UPDATE: Sep 19, 2014: Yet another new Launcher! This time I’m calling it v3, and it can now handle .sln files (opening them in a new instance of Xamarin Studio). Check out the new blog post for more info! UPDATE: Sep 8, 2014:
speaking MobiDevDay Detroit 2013 Had a great turnout and lots of solid questions at my talk on Xamarin and C# at Detroit MobiDevDay 2013. I’ve got my slides posted for anyone who cares to have a look! Thanks to @MobiDevDay for having me, and to all those
xamarin Xamarin Evolve 2013 Xamarin Evolve 2013 was an Awesome conference! I got to see a lot of familiar faces, and meet plenty of new ones! It’s such a great experience to see and talk with such great people who I’d only otherwise know online! I
