BUSINESS & MARKETING
When should you use push notifications?
Probably the most abused rule of the Apple App Store Guidelines is 4.5.4. It states: I’ve yet to hear of a situation of an app being removed for mis-use of push, but we all receive marketing push notifications regularly. This post talks about what makes a good push notification.
Unsure if you should be using Push notifications in your app? I’ve cracked it. by Dermot Daly
How GoodNotes went from an App Idea into a Profitable Business
In his last semester of university, Steven Chan registered for as many bird courses as possible and staked all his efforts into a new app. Since then, he has built his product GoodNotes into an award-winning app featured on Apple’s App Store multiple times.
Interview with Steven Chan, Founder of GoodNotes: How He Turned an App Idea into a Profitable Business by Athena Lam
TOOLS
Little great things about Visual Studio 2019
Visual Studio 2019 is out and looking good. Mads Kristensen shares a few of his favourite nuggets. These are the non-obvious ones or ones that require you to change some settings.
Little great things about Visual Studio 2019 by Mads Kristensen
ANDROID
Getting Started With WorkManager
If you need to schedule a background task on Android, you’re probably familiar with all of the various ways to accomplish this such as: Google Cloud Messaging Firebase Cloud Messaging DownloadManager Foreground Service Alarm Manager etc WorkManager Give a warm welcome to WorkManager.
XAMARIN FORMS
Handling connection changes in Xamarin Forms
When developing mobile applications, handling the internet connection changes it’s a must thing to do. In most popular apps, when there’s no connection a message is shown to give awareness to the user about why they won’t see any new content.
In this article, Charlin will show you how to do just that in Xamarin Forms by providing a few alternatives to show the no connection message.
Handling connection changes in Xamarin Forms by Charlin Agramonte
Working with Barcodes in Xamarin.Forms
Barcodes might not seem cool, but they are so often required for applications. In this post, Gerald talks about how to incorporate them into your application.
Monetising your Xamarin.Forms app with AdMob
In this how-to, we’ll take a look at how to monetise your Xamarin.Forms app with one of the most popular ad networks, AdMob. As an example, we’ll take a little Xamarin.Forms game that I’ve been working on in my spare time and add a banner ad to the bottom of the main game page.
Monetising your Xamarin.Forms app with AdMob by NigelFerrissey
Consuming RESTFul API’s with Refit
Luis Pujols gave a presentation on using Refit, check out the slides and github links for some tips and tricks.
Consuming RESTFul API’s with Refit – Xamarin Forms / Orlando Code Camp 2019 by Pujolsluis
Converting Colors in Xamarin Forms
Did you know that Xamarin Essentials has a whole bunch of helper methods for all sorts of things like Colors?
UI Templates for Xamarin.Forms
This is interesting, SyncFusion is creating UI templates for Xamarin Forms. They are starting out with some login pages, but hopefully this will expand out to other useful pages too!
Introducing UI Templates for Xamarin.Forms by Prabakaran Ramasamy
Sharing Files & Email Attachments
In the recent release of Xamarin.Essentials (1.1.0), we introduced several new stable features including detect shake, browser customization, and a plethora of platform helpers. The team has also been working hard on one of the top requested features around files.
Sharing Files & Email Attachments with Xamarin.Essentials Preview Features by James Montemagno
James embraces Font Icons
James Montemagno has been playing around with Icon Fonts on his stream, and has found a new love for using them inside Xamarin.Forms. In this post, he gives a good rundown of the pros/cons and what you need to get started.
Using Font Icons in Xamarin.Forms: Goodbye Images, Hello Fonts! by James Montemagno
PODCASTS & VIDEOS
Merge Conflict 144 - Package Up Those .NET Core 3 Apps
So long Desktop bridge and hello MSIX, the new hero of packaging and distributing Windows applications (and maybe more). James walks through his new .NET Core 3 WPF app and how he stumbled upon MSIX.
AND FINALLY...
All the cool kids are Twitching!
There is some fantastic action going down on Twitch for Xamarin, here is just a few of the streamers focusing on Xamarin.
- The Xamarin Forms Team
- James Montemagno
- James Clancey
- Glenn Stephens
- Kym Phillpotts
- The White Space
- Rene Ruppert
- Rob Giibbens
- Andrew Hoefling
Also check out the Live Coders for other development streams in different langauges.