Goodbye, 2021!
Starting at dormakaba I started this year with a new job, moving from a shareholder register to a company for access solutions. The first month was driven by a lot of explanations and testing. The...
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Use the iOS system colors in Xamarin.Forms (Updated)
Update After publishing this post, Gerald Versluis from Microsoft responded on Twitter with an interesting information on how to get the system colors into our ResourceDictionary without using the...
#XFQaD: Compile XAML without code behind in Xamarin.Forms
How I discovered this #XFQaD When I was reorganizing the application resources on my current side project, I decided to create some thematically divided ResourceDictionary files. This has led me t...
Dealing with the System UI on iOS in Xamarin.Forms
Having written a few applications with Xamarin.Forms by now, there was always the one part where you have to go platform specific. Over time, this part got easier as the collection of Platform-spec...
Fix ‘Xcode is not currently installed or could not be found’ error in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac
Every now and then, our IDE’s get some updates. This week, Visual Studio for MacOS got updated once again. After that, there was a separated Download initiated for the Xcode Command Line Tools. Two...
Workaround to force Xamarin.Forms WebView to use a dark mode CSS for local content on Android
Recently I updated my blog reader app to support the dark mode newer iOS and Android version support. While everything went smooth on iOS and the update is already live in the App Store, I had some...
Extending glidex.forms on Android to load a placeholder for images that fail to load
What is glidex.forms? The glidex.forms library is a Xamarin.Forms implementation of Glide, which is one of the quasi standards for imaging on Android (it is even recommended by Google). Luckily, J...
Extending Xamarin.Forms.Nuke on iOS to load a placeholder for images that fail to load
What is Xamarin.Forms.Nuke? Xamarin.Forms.Nuke is a Xamarin.Forms implementation of Nuke, one of the most advanced image libraries on iOS today. The Xamarin.Forms implementation focuses heavily on...
Goodbye, 2020!
In the beginning of 2020, I was polishing up the app for my personal blog as well as my WordPress reader library. I started to write a series about my experience on implementing push notifications ...
Some helpful extensions when dealing with types in .NET
If you are writing reusable code, chances are high that you will write quite some code that deals with types, generics, and interfaces. Over the years, the collection of my helper extensions for th...