2013 was a year with a lot of surprises. It was a year full of community work for me as well as a huge learning year in development. But my year had also dark clouds on heaven. This post is my pers...

As I mentioned already in my first blog post about Xamarin, Android has a different project structure – even if you use Xamarin. A very important part of this structure are resources. We have diff...

Xamarin comes with some emulators for development of an Android app. While these emulators are working and are also available in all supported screen sizes, the performance of them is really bad. ...

Prolog In the last few month I was developing not only my personal projects, but also on my daily 9to5 job. I am working on an internal app that will help to improve the customer experience amongs...

This year was an amazing year. We got a lot of new devices, great apps, and a lot of development work was done. Now, with Xmas around the corner, I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas! Aft...

Microsoft introduced custom uri schemes or uri associations in Windows Phone 8 along with the ability to launch apps based on a file type. Sadly, this feature is not used across a broad range of a...

Like I wrote in my last post, I recently finished a PCL project with a Windows Phone and a Windows 8.1 app. Like the Windows Phone version, also the Windows 8.1 app has a live tile that fetches the...

In one of my recent projects, I needed to update the live tile of the app via a background agent with data from a WordPress based web site. I did what I always do when implementing a feature I neve...

I am currently exploring a lot of APIs that I never used before in my Windows Phone apps as I am adding more features to my NFC Toolkit. Like I always do, I create sample applications to explore w...

While development of my NFC Toolkit, I came to the point where I needed to launch apps from my code. On Windows Phone, this is only possible via custom uri association and needs to be implemented ...