All of my apps, no matter on which platform, need to know their version number (for displaying in app) and their package identifier (for opening them in their store). If you are following around fo...
I recently recognized that I have written quite a few “Quick-and-Dirty”-solutions for Xamarin Forms that run well for most scenarios. There is a chance they will not work in all and every scenario,...
First Half The first half of the year I wasn’t much into development besides work. I was asked to help building a new German Android news site, which turned out to be an impossible task because of...
The scenario … The reason I came up with this is that I am writing on an Xamarin.Forms web reader app. It is an app that uses a WebView to display the contents of web articles. Of course, I am usi...
Update: Xamarin appearently solved this problem with Service Release 3 for Xamarin Forms 2.5. I can confirm it works in the app that caused me to write this post. Additional note: the forms:prefix...
Why do I need to take control over the back button behavior? The back button is available on Windows, Android and under certain conditions on iOS. It is one of the key navigation hooks. While the ...
If you have been following along me for some time, you’ll probably know that I used to be a fan of Microsoft and its products (especially Windows Phone) for a long time, and I did really everything...
Often, we want to/need to know when views throw certain events. However, due to using the MVVM pattern, our application logic is separated from the view. There are several ways to get those events ...
In this post, I will show you how to display dialog messages (also known as message box). This time, we will use again native implementations (like in the second post about Dependency Injection) to...
After showing you the basic MVVMLight Setup I am using as well as how to combine Xamarin.Forms’ DependencyService with our own Dependecy Injection-mechanism, this article is all about Navigation an...