Saying Goodbye to 2017 [Editorial]
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...
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Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: loading bundled assets in the Forms project
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...
[Updated] A workaround for Xamarin Forms 2.5 bug that prevents resource declaration in App.xaml
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...
Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: taking control over the back buttons
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 ...
Why I am (once again) using an iPhone [Editorial]
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...
Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: EventToCommandBehavior
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 ...
Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: showing dialog messages
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...
[Updated] Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: navigation and modal pages
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...
Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: Dependecy Injection
Recap Let’s just do a small recap what Dependency Injection means. The DI pattern’s main goal is to decouple objects and their dependencies. To separate concerns, we are using this structure nearl...
Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I (new series) [Updated]
Updated some code parts that needed to be changed in the ViewModelLocator. Please see also this post for upgrading the project to .netStandard: Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: migrati...