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Narrow Winding Roadway: Starting with Microsoft Band and Xamarin
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Sunday, March 22, 2015. Starting with Microsoft Band and Xamarin. Recently Xamarin released their API for Microsoft Band that works with Android, iOS and Windows Phone. It was a tough choice on what to play with before vacation; a new Xamarin Forms preview that works with Windows Store and Windows Phone 8.1 was released as well as Xamarin Everywhere that hits Android Wear and Apple Phone. A complete overload of super cool stuff. Https:/ components.xamarin.com/view/microsoft-band-sdk. Null & pairedBands&#...
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Narrow Winding Roadway: Xamarin.Forms Circle Images
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. Xamarin.Forms Circle Images. It is a common pattern in mobile applications to display an image in the shape of a circle. Xamarin.Forms does not have any functionality for this right out of the box but the Xamarin.Forms team showed us how this can be done at Evolve 2014. That implementation can be found here:. Xamarin.Forms Team Circle Image. This implementation by James Montemagno. Statements James, but just don't let Jason Bock. The iOS implementation is doing something very ...
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Narrow Winding Roadway: July 2014
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Monday, July 7, 2014. Xamarin.Forms.Labs Version 1.1.0 Released. For the last several weeks several developers from around the globe have been working on a project to extend the functionality given in Xamarin.Forms to deliver more cross platform capabilities for Android, iOS and Windows Phone 8. This project is called Xamarin.Froms.Labs. Today we have released version 1.1.0 and it is now in Nuget for your use. Xamarin.Forms.Labs.Services.Autofac. Includes PCL with extensions to use with Autofac. Includes...
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Narrow Winding Roadway: Direct casting vs. As and Linq Single, SingleOrDefault, First, FirstOrDefault
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Direct casting vs. As and Linq Single, SingleOrDefault, First, FirstOrDefault. There are tons of articles on these two topics but I still see it so many times I'm putting out a quick reminder. Var someVariable = someOtherVariable as SomeType;. Var someVariable = (SomeType)someOtherVariable;. If however, someOtherVariable should always have at value that is castable to SomeType and anything else is a logic error somewhere in the code, then you should be using direst casting. Di...
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Narrow Winding Roadway: February 2014
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014. The High Cost of Cross Platform Standards. Recently Jason Bock posed a question to our company about where should validation happen in an application; on the client, on the server, both? How did this all happen? Now we have all kinds of cool things like TypeScript and SPA frameworks all is good in the world, right? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Xamarin, Home of Android in C#. The High Cost of Cross Platform Standards. View my complete profile.
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Narrow Winding Roadway: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015. Mobile Development Platform Performance Part 2 (Native, Cordova, Classic Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms). For some background on testing methodology using Android and iOS. Native (Objective-C 64 bit and Java). Cordova (Multi-Device Hybrid Apps) using Intel's App Framework for the UI. Classic Xamarin (64 bit unified beta for iOS). Xamarin.Forms (64 bit unified beta for iOS with Xamarin Forms version 1.3.1). IPad Mini (non Retina) running iOS 8.1.1 (12B435). Test 1: Test App Size.
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Narrow Winding Roadway: Mobile Development Platform Performance (Native, Cordova, Classic Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms)
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014. Mobile Development Platform Performance (Native, Cordova, Classic Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms). Last month I published my Mobile Technology Decision Making White Paper. We normally work with native (iOS, Android, WP), Cordova and Xamarin so I wanted to compare these. I plan on this being the first post on this topic. For some background on testing methodology using Android and iOS. Native (Objective-C 64 bit and Java). Classic Xamarin (64 bit unified beta for iOS). Applications wer...
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Narrow Winding Roadway: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Microsoft's Windows 10 Allows You to Run Android and iOS Apps. And Mary Jo Foley's article. First there are some pretty important technical questions raised by this:. What will the applications look like in Windows 10? How about access to system services and 3D rendering? For Objective-C what if my application is accessing HealthKit? It seems Apple is putting a huge effort behind Swift but MS only mentioned Objective-C; will there be Swift support some time in the future? I jus...
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Narrow Winding Roadway: May 2014
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Thursday, May 29, 2014. Xamarin 3.0 and Xamarin.Forms - Getting Started. Please note, this does not mean that we want to make the same exact UI for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. In fact that would produce a substandard user experience. But to the extent possible, it's isn't the syntax that matters, only appearance and behavior. Xamarin.Forms gives us a much greater possibility of sharing UI code across platforms than ever before while still maintaining a native experience. Here's what I did:. With this...
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Narrow Winding Roadway: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014. Mobile Development Platform Performance (Native, Cordova, Classic Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms). Last month I published my Mobile Technology Decision Making White Paper. We normally work with native (iOS, Android, WP), Cordova and Xamarin so I wanted to compare these. I plan on this being the first post on this topic. For some background on testing methodology using Android and iOS. Native (Objective-C 64 bit and Java). Classic Xamarin (64 bit unified beta for iOS). Applications wer...