Data Persistence in Xamarin Forms Part 1 - Property Lists Hello everybody and welcome to my series on data persistence in Xamarin Forms. I frequently lurk various Facebook forums and stack overflow and repeatedly see the same questions being asked... How can I store data on a device? How should I store data on a … Continue reading Persisting Data in Xamarin Forms (Part 1)
Hello everyone, I am back today with a quick tip for Xamarin Forms. Today I did a cool little trick to add a placeholder label to an Editor in Xamarin Forms. The Entry in Xamarin Forms comes with a neat little placeholder! The Editor in Xamarin Forms does not have a placeholder property, so today I will … Continue reading Xamarin Editor with Placeholder (Using Data Triggers)
Hello All Today I am going to cover how we can have Barcode Scanning in a Xamarin Forms whilst correctly utilising the MVVM pattern. *Note: Version 2.4.1 of Zxing.Mobile for Android appears to be bugged and won't scan correctly. If you encounter this issue, downgrade your android versions (only) to 2.3.2. Requirements There are a few … Continue reading Barcode Scanning in Xamarin Forms
This article details how you can integrate Crashlytics with a Xamarin Android Application. This content also appears in my Using Crashlytics With Xamarin Apps post where I walk through all the steps required to distribute Xamarin apps for beta testing with Fabric. Archiving Firstly you should run your app (preferably on a physical device), make sure … Continue reading Xamarin Android – Beta Distribution With Fabric
This article details how you can integrate Crashlytics with a Xamarin Android Application. This content also appears in my Using Crashlytics With Xamarin Apps post where I walk through all the steps required to distribute Xamarin apps for beta testing with Fabric. If you have done this process for iOS, do note that this is a little … Continue reading Xamarin Android – Integrating Crashlytics
This article details how you can distribute Xamarin Forms / iOS apps using Fabric. This content also appears in my Using Crashlytics With Xamarin Apps post where I walk through all the steps required to distribute Xamarin apps for beta testing with Fabric. This guide assumes that you already have an app with Crashlytics integration, find out how … Continue reading Xamarin iOS – Beta Distribution With Fabric
This article details how you can install Crashlytics to a Xamarin iOS applicaton and link it to Fabric. This content also appears in my Using Crashlytics With Xamarin Apps post where I walk through all the steps required to distribute Xamarin apps for beta testing with Fabric. To complete this guide you will need an Enrolled Apple Developer … Continue reading Xamarin iOS – Integrating Fabric / Crashlytics
This article details how you can create an iOS provisioning profile for use in beta & full distributions of your iOS apps. This content also appears in my Using Crashlytics With Xamarin Apps post where I walk through all the steps required to distribute Xamarin apps for beta testing with Fabric. CREATING AN APP ID Log into … Continue reading iOS / Xamarin – Provisioning Profiles
Hello and welcome to my tutorial on integrating Fabric & Crashlytics into your cross platform Xamarin application. The process is not well explained online and I have just gone through the tripe of figuring it out myself so I figured it would be a useful thing to document! This guide is going to be quite … Continue reading Using Crashlytics With Xamarin Apps
Hello and welcome to my guide on installing 3rd party frameworks/libraries to your xcode project for use in your iOS apps. This guide will help you utilise CocoaPods to manage external libraries on which your project depends! This guide is written for people who are not hugely familiar with iOS and haven't used many 3rd … Continue reading Adding Frameworks To Your Xcode Project (CocoaPods)
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