GIF Support now available in Xamarin.Forms

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With the new pre-release version of Xamarin.Forms that just came out, you can now use animated GIF images! Of course it is super obvious what you can do with that, in this post I will show you how! The support for animated GIF has been a long time coming, but recently the PR was cleaned … Read more GIF Support now available in Xamarin.Forms

SourceLink Support for Xamarin.Forms

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If you’ve heard of SourceLink already you know what is coming and how this will boost your productivity. If you haven’t heard of it yet, no worries! In this post I will tell you what it is and how to get started with it for Xamarin.Forms. Since the Forms 4.3-pre1 package is out now, you … Read more SourceLink Support for Xamarin.Forms

Contributing to Xamarin.Forms: My Story

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In this series of posts I will go over the basics of contributing to Xamarin.Forms. I have 4 posts planned initially: my story, before you open a pull request (PR), opening a PR and after you opened a PR. In this first post I will tell you a little bit about my background. By sharing … Read more Contributing to Xamarin.Forms: My Story

HTML in Your Xamarin.Forms Label

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As I am writing this, the PR for showing HTML content in the Xamarin.Forms Label control has just been merged. In this post I will show you how to use it. If you are interested in the more technical bits and process, check out the link to the PR here. After implementing the MaxLines on … Read more HTML in Your Xamarin.Forms Label

ZXing Barcode Scanning on Android Skipping Frames Issue

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After my live stream on how to implement barcodes with ZXing in Xamarin.Forms I got a lot of wonderful responses, thank you for that! There were a couple that are about a problem that people experience on Android. Here is a quick post on how to counter those. Scanning Barcodes with ZXing In my original … Read more ZXing Barcode Scanning on Android Skipping Frames Issue

#XamarinUIJuly recap

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Thank you to all the contributors of #XamarinUIJuly

The whole of July we have seen blog posts by all kinds of amazing community members from around the globe. Steven Thewissen has initiated the #XamarinUIJuly to inspire people to share their beautiful Xamarin.Forms UI designs. Each day there was a new post sharing the details on how a design or functionality was implemented and … Read more #XamarinUIJuly recap

Hot Reload: Now Available in Xamarin.Forms

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A feature that is highly anticipated, has now been launched: XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms. If you have seen the keynote at the Xamarin Developer Summit you have already seen this in action.The keynote also included a whole lot of more awesome stuff! But in this post, I will show you a bit more on … Read more Hot Reload: Now Available in Xamarin.Forms

Snppts is back: calling all UI rockstars!

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While this is not new, we have taken a slightly different approach. I am talking about Snppts. As you can see under the link, we have launched it before and unfortunately it wasn’t a big hit. With all the new attention for good looking UIs, we thought it was time we try this again! But … Read more Snppts is back: calling all UI rockstars!

Unselected and Selected Tab Color for TabbedPage in Xamarin.Forms

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Some time ago, Android had a platform-specific implemented that allowed you to set the tab color for a selected and unselected tab separately. After that, an issue was opened on GitHub, to also implement this for iOS. In this post, I will describe how I implemented this feature, now for iOS, Android, and UWP and … Read more Unselected and Selected Tab Color for TabbedPage in Xamarin.Forms

Gur.Codes(); MFractor episodes: Font Importer & Image Assets Manager

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I have been recording videos for a while now, named Gur.Codes();. And I’ll admit it, I have been really releasing videos consequently. But recently, I have been taking it up again and recorded two videos about an extension that I love: MFractor.

About MFractor

MFractor is a plugin for Visual Studio for Mac, founded by Matthew Robbins. It helps you by taking a way a lot of tasks that can very well be automated, especially when doing Xamarin or Xamarin.Forms development.

The features range from augmented IntelliSense to a full-blown generation of MVVM code, importing fonts and resizing the images to all the right sizes. But it doesn’t stop there, there is much more to explore, go check it out at mfractor.com. The majority of the _really_ cool features are in the premium tier, but I promise you, it is well worth the money.

It has been a while ago, but I did an earlier blogpost on MFractor back then. To be on the safe side, I can’t stress this enough: I do not get paid for this, I just love the tool and have been talking to Matthew on multiple occasions to come up with new features or fix bugs.

Font Importer

If you have been working together with a designer, you know they love their custom fonts. Importing them into your Android and iOS projects is a task that requires multiple steps. Trying to find a font postscript name, copying the files to the right place, add it to the info.plist file… It’s a hassle! With the importer now available in MFractor, it’s a matter of seconds. It will even suggest a XAML style of you to use! 🤯

Font Importer (MFractor) in Visual Studio for Mac

Image Assets Manager

Another big hassle, if you ask me, is adding images to your Android and iOS apps. You have to figure out all these different sizes and folders to put them in. In MFractor, there is a very handy tool to import images and it will take care of all the heavy lifting for you. Simply amazing!

Import Image Assets (MFractor) in Visual Studio for Mac

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If you like the videos please like them, subscribe to my YouTube channel and share it with others. I’m very open to suggestions on what you’d like to see (inside or out the Xamarin space). In fact, making videos about MFractor was something requested from comments in my previous videos 🙂 So, if there’s anything you can;t figure out or you want to learn more about, please hit me up!