What the h*** is Steemit? Steemit is a social network that (might) pay you for using it. You can earn rewards for posting quality posts, for commenting on others posts and also for curation (votin...
The problem Sometimes, we want to invoke a method that is available via code for a control. Due to the abstraction of our MVVM application, the ViewModel has no access to all those methods that ar...
When I started this series, Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms did not fully support .NET Standard. The sample project for this series has still a portable class library, and as I wanted to blog on another ...
Recap Some of you might remember my posts about encryption for Android, iOS and Windows 10. If not, take a look here: Xamarin Android: asymmetric encryption without any user input or hardcoded...
Caching always has the same job: provide data that is frequently used in very little time. As I mentioned in my first post of this series, Akavache is my first choice because it is fast. It also pr...
Caching is never a trivial task. Sometimes, we can use built-in storages, but more often, these take quite some time when we are storing a large amount of data (eg. large datasets or large json str...
DataProtectionProvider The UWP has an easy-to-use helper class to perform encryption tasks on data. Before you can use the DataProtectionProvider class, you have to decide on which level you want ...
I am not repeating all the initial explanations why you should use this way of encryption to secure sensible data in your app(s), as I did this already in the post on how to do that on Android. iO...
The update contains several improvements to the HttpClientimplementation, which should improve performance of the library a lot: all handlers now use one static HttpClientinstance. HttpClientis...
The problem Android is often said to be one of the most unsecure platforms one can use. This problem is home-made, as there is still a lot of fragmentation. There are thousand of models that do no...