Nowadays it is more important than ever to ensure sensitive data to be protected. In this post, I’ll show you how to ensure data protection within your Akavache powered Xamarin.Forms app.
22
May
2018
21
May
2018
Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: storing, retrieving and deleting data
Following up the initial post on using Akavache and Xamarin.Forms together, I will show you some typical methods for storing, retrieving and deleting data from the cache instance we implemented in the first post of this series.
06
May
2018
Xamarin.Forms, Akavache and I: Initial setup (new series)
Caching is very important, especially in mobile applications. With this post, I kick off my new series about how I use Akavache in my Xamarin.Forms applications and quite a few gotchas while doing so.
01
May
2018
Using the built-in UWP data protection for data encryption
To sum up my posts on data encryption for (mobile) applications, I’ll show you how encrypt and decrypt data in an Universal Windows Platform app with the built-in DataProtection API.
27
Apr
2018
How to perform asymmetric encryption without user input/hardcoded values with Xamarin iOS
Like I promised already in my blog post about asymmetric encryption on Android with Xamarin, this post is all about asymmetric encryption on iOS, utilizing the built-in KeyChain API of iOS – once again, without any user input and any hardcoded values.
22
Apr
2018
WordPressReader (Standard) version 1.2.0 focuses on improving performance
In the last few days, I was working on some improvements for my WordPressReader (Standard) library. I am happy to announce that an update to version 1.2.0 is now available.
19
Apr
2018
Xamarin Android: asymmetric encryption without any user input or hardcoded values
In this post I am showing you how to securely create a key pair for asymmetric encryption in your Xamarin Android app, without any user interaction needed and – more important – without any hardcoded values in your code.
21
Mar
2018
#XfQaD: Limit maximum lines of Label and indicate text truncation
If we want to display some text in our Xamarin.Forms app, chances are high we are going to use the Label control. But what if we want to limit the maximum visible lines of such a Label? This is what this #XfQaD is about.
17
Mar
2018
WordPressReader (Standard) library is now available on Nuget
With this post, I am happy to announce my new WordPressReader (Standard) library is now available on Nuget.
13
Feb
2018
#XfQaD: read package identity and version from platform project with Xamarin.Forms
In this second #XFQaD I am showing how to read your applications’s package identity as well as the package version using their dedicated native implementations for that task.