SwipeView Interaction with Xamarin.Forms

On the Xamarin.Forms repository an issue was opened that requested an example on how to use SwipeView in CollectionView. Of course, I’m happy to explain. But I would hate to have that knowledge limited to just that issue. That’s why I’m writing this post about it so you can learn from it too! The SwipeView … Read more

Creating flight-mode safe Xamarin apps with Akavache

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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

TapGestureRecognizer in Xamarin.Forms for Android

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: https://gist.github.com/jfversluis/fffafd7c962606163d06c912fd2fc76b … Read more