Singleton snippet (PC/Mac) #XamarinMonth
Code Snippets (or templates in the Visual Studio for Mac world) are ready-made snippets of code you can quickly insert into your code. Here is my snippet/template to implement a singleton.…
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Drag and drop in Xamarin.Forms (Fixed for Android)
In this article I'm showing you my solution for implementing a Drag and Drop interaction into your Xamarin.Forms app. I didn't want to use any native component or Custom Renderer on purpose, many of these solutions are available. I'm using PanGestureRecognizer, TranslateTo and some basic maths.…
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More Xamarin.Forms.Color functions
Hi all! When designing en app and implementing styles it can be useful to control and transform your Color resources. Here are some extension functions to help you with that.…
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Controlling iOS StatusBar in Xamarin.Forms
On iOS there is this system StatusBar at the top of the screen that shows the battery level, time etc. This is how to control it in Xamarin.Forms…
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Free open-source solution to cast your Android screen
As a mobile developer we are often asked to demo our work. In the Android world there are many ways of doing that. Here is an introduction to Scrcpy.…
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Handle navigation exceptions in Prism for Xamarin
If you're using the NavigationService in Prism, for Xamarin.Forms or simply Xamarin you might notice native crashes with no information or whatsoever. Here is how I handle this.…
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Drag and drop solutions for Xamarin
The drag and drop user interaction is a popular subject in the Xamarin world. Most solutions we can find online are native implementations, here are the documentations I could find.…
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Logging .NET apps using NLog
Debugging messages, logs, can become very messy very quickly in development teams. I've decided to set up a sort of logging framework in my last team. Here is what I did.…
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Why remote freelancer?
My 2019 resolution is to switch to freelancing, mostly home-office. I took a 6 months break to think about what was really bothering me in my previous jobs, here are my results.…
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Add vibrations in a Xamarin.iOS app
Long time ago I've worked on adding Haptic Feedback, aka. vibrations on a Xamarin.Native app. Here is how it works for iOS…
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How to create a blog in 20 minutes
Ghost is a free and open source blogging platform written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT License.…
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Rename an Azure Directory
Every Azure account is bound to at least one Azure Directory. My Azure Directory was named "Répertoire par défaut" for ages. I didn't know how to rename it and I wasn't sure what would be the impact of that renaming. Turns out it's not as hard as I thought and there are no particular side effects.…
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Organising your Azure Subscriptions
Since I was a student I always had multiple Azure Subscriptions, Each of them had a different capabilities and amount of money included. It became such a waste of time that I decided to find a solution to tell the difference between each of them.…
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