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Network Resilience For Your App With Polly

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Network Resilience For Your App With Polly

In this post we will learn about a great library called Polly. With this library we can define policies (you can see where the name came from) on how to deal with failed network requests. This library provides you with easy to use code that let’s you retry, fallback or define other methods to deal … Read more

Less repetitive code to reach REST APIs for your Xamarin.Forms app with Refit

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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

NuGet gold nuggets – packages which are in my almost every Xamarin project

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NuGet Gold nuggets

While Xamarin delivers a nice set of controls and functionalities with Xamarin.Forms, there is always room for improvement. This is where NuGet packages come in! Luckily there is a very active and alive community behind Xamarin which can provide you with all the necessary plugins. Underneath you will find a list of the ones I … Read more