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...
The problem Xamarin.Forms.Labelhas a common set of properties we can use to configure how our text is shown. However, it does miss a property to limit the maximum of text lines and a proper indica...