Awesome geeky software development stuff. Mostly Xamarin, Web things, C# and a little unicorn.
In this post we will be looking at a library called Akavache by Paul Betts. This library lets you store key/value paired data easily. You can store any arbitrary data like user settings, but it can also be used to store cached data that will expire over time. We will see what Akavache does and how we can … Read more
Just a very quick and dirty post for other people who might be looking for this. TL;DR the TapGestureRecognizer doesn’t work for more than two taps in Xamarin.Forms. The problem with TapGestureRecognizer Yesterday I spent a too big amount of time looking for the cause of my TapGestureRecognizer not working for Android. Observe the code underneath: I … Read more
When using Xamarin.Forms and the MVVM pattern within your app, at some point you are going to run into a problem. The problem is that you want to bind to a value that is not the right type. For example, you want to bind some enum value to the text color. This can easily be … Read more
With the release of MFractor Premium, it is about time I would do a blog post about it. I have had the pleasure to work with MFractor for some time now and even had a chat with the create Matthew Robbins. If you do not know what MFractor is; it is an awesome plugin which … Read more
As a addition to my blogs I have been writing here for quite some time now, I thought; what can I do to take it to the next level? And so I have started my own vlog as well! Gur.Codes(); is born. What is The Vlog About? As you are used to from me, by … Read more
In the past week, a question came across on StackOverflow for which I created a sample project. The question was: how to make the detail text of a TextCell appear on the right? I started to answer the question, as I do a lot, and quickly came across the UITableViewCellStyle in iOS. I thought it would … Read more
With the introduction of iOS 10.3 a small, but rather useful feature was added. It’s called the SKStoreReviewController. This addition to the iOS framework can boost the number of reviews that you gather for your app. When you have released your app, it is always nice to get some recognition for it in the form of … Read more
A client came to me with the question if I could wrap their web application into a native app. Now, of course there is a lot of things to say about this, I did advice them against it, but for reasons they still wanted it and so I started building. The web application was already … Read more
In follow-up of my previous post about PropertyChanged.Fody, this time we will look at Refit (link). Just like implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged interface, writing code to communicate with your REST backend can produce a lot of duplicated code. Each request looks very similar and follows the same pattern; do a request to endpoint X and retrieve … Read more
*Pinch* Is this a dream?! My very own book? No it is not! I did write a book, Xamarin Continuous Integration and Delivery, and here is everything you need to know about it. A while ago I have done some blogposts on continuous integration and delivery for Xamarin apps. While doing so I got more and more … Read more