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Visual State Transitions in Xamarin Forms with Animations
In previous posts (Visual States in Xamarin.Forms using BuildIt.Forms and Xamarin.Forms Visual States with View Models) I demonstrated how the BuildIt.Forms library...
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Getting Started: Xamarin Forms with .NET Standard
With the recent release of Visual Studio 2017 v15.3 (and subsequent patch release 15.3.1 and 15.3.2…. yes, it does say something about ship quality ) came the release and support for .NET Standard 2.0....
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Source Code Debugging with BuildIt Libraries
I was working on the BuildIt libraries yesterday and got slightly distracted – I was looking for how to make a small change to the way the Nuget packages are generated and ended up investing time in...
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Getting Started: Xamarin Forms with .NET Standard 2.0
In my earlier post Getting Started: Xamarin Forms with .NET Standard I covered how to create a new Xamarin Forms project which uses a .NET Standard 1.4 library to share the views between iOS, Android...
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Visual Studio or Blend Exception When Using XAML Designer
Today we ran into a nasty issue with the XAML design experience in Visual Studio and/or Blend throwing an exception:Exceptions in the designer a quite often a result of code being run by the designer...
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Hey, who moved my… Visual Studio Emulator for Android?
A while ago, in response to a common frustration from Xamarin developers, Microsoft released the Visual Studio Emulator for Android and it even made it into the Visual Studio installer:As a...
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Getting Started with Visual States in Xamarin Forms using BuildIt.Forms
Over the past couple of months we’ve been working on getting the BuildIt.Forms library to a point where it was stable enough to promote and talk about. With the recent release of the 2.4 update for...
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View Model States and Connecting them to Xamarin Forms Visual States using...
In my previous post on Getting Started with Visual States in Xamarin Forms using BuildIt.Forms I showed a very basic example of defining and triggering Visual States within a Xamarin Forms application....
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Building Media Applications for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) using...
Over the past couple of years at Built to Roam we’ve built a number of media applications. Back when UWP was first launched, all media was played using the MediaElement, which was fairly familiar to...
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Building Xbox One applications with the Universal Windows Platform
When building a Universal Windows Platform application there are times when you’ll want a different layout/functionality for a particular platform. For the most part building applications across...
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Styling the MediaPlayerElement and MediaTransportControls in a Universal...
In my previous post, Building Media Applications for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) using the MediaPlayerElement, I covered the basics of building a UWP media application using the...
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Authentication Redirection Loop with Angular Application and Azure Active...
Recently we ran in to some difficulty with an Angular application that was being retrofitted into a different environment. During the initial development the Angular application had been pushed to...
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Xamarin Development with Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5
Normally I don’t bother posting anything about the progressive updates that roll out for Visual Studio 2017 but version 15.5 adds a bunch of new features that are set to make app development using...
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Getting Started: MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms
Over the past 6-12 months we’ve seen dramatic changes in Xamarin Forms and the support within Visual Studio. The most recent update, which I covered in my previous post, included a number of new...
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Getting Started: MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms (Part 2)
In my previous post I covered the first part of this post on Getting Started with MvvmCross and Xamarin Forms where I covered the initial steps in getting a new Xamarin Forms project started. In this...
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Making MvvmCross with Xamarin Forms Friction Free
My last two posts (part 1 and part 2) outlined all the steps necessary to get a new Xamarin Forms with MvvmCross project setup. What I thought was going to be a simple post ended up being much longer...
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Building Applications for Platform X
As we get started with a new year it’s time to pause and think about how the app development ecosystem has evolved, what technologies continue or are emerging, and look at the decision matrix that will...
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New BuildIt Release for NetStandard 2.0 (General, States and Forms)
A new release of the following libraries is available via NuGet (v1.1.0.134):- BuildIt.General- BuildIt.States- BuildIt.FormsWhilst not much has changed in terms of features, behind the scenes there...
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Cross-platform applications – PhoneGap/Cordova, Xamarin, PWAs and now Flutter
At Built to Roam we build applications that target a wide array of different platforms, using a wide variety of technologies depending on the project requirements. One of the most challenging things...
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App or not to App
Following my last post there were a couple of interesting tweets that made me revisit (again) the discussion of whether building an app is the right thing to do. For example, @GeoffreyHuntley...
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