Where most people try to find suitable tools, services and frameworks for the app they are going to build, for me it’s often the other way around. I’m often looking for app ideas to experiment with specific tools, services or frameworks. This time I wanted to give SkiaSharp a try!…
There are a lot of different ways for setting up your continuous delivery pipeline these days. Another solution that’s gaining more popularity is Cake Build. Cake Build also has a lot to offer, but in quite a different way.…
HockeyApp is an awesome tool when it comes to crash reporting, user metrics, beta app distribution and collecting user feedback. With Application Insights you can create custom dashboards, based on your HockeyApp data.…
With the rising popularity of IoT (Internet of Things), it becomes more common that you need to communicate with hardware. In most cases you can accomplish this with network connectivity, but you might want to consider Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) as well.…
Last week I travelled to Seattle to attend Microsoft Build. During this conference they announced Vs4mac.…
On the second day of the Microsoft Build conference, during the Keynote, Microsoft had some awesome announcements related to Mobile development. In a following session James Montemagno and Miguel De Icaza got into more detail and even showed more epic new features.…
When running your UI tests, locally or in Xamarin Test Cloud, you sometimes want to execute code in your app from your tests.…
When creating Xamarin apps a lot of people choose to go with the MVVM pattern. There are a lot of beautiful frameworks out there to make the life of an MVVM developer easier, but sometimes you just want to do it the hard way and write it yourself.…