For the International Day of Girls in Tics, INDOTEL organized a panel in which experts in technology spoke about the importance of women in ICTs. In the exchange of successful experiences, the young engineers Mabel Gerónimo, graduated Summa cum laude from the systems engineering career, currently works as a technical evangelist for Microsoft in Latin […]
Talk: Why Xamarin Forms is Awesome
The Open Saturday is an event for promoting the Open Source technologies, it takes place every year in the Dominican Republic. In this event Rendy Del Rosario and I were talking about the reasons why Xamarin Forms is awesome, how it works and providing a simple demo created as the application for the event. Full presentation: […]
Talk: Mastering XAML in Xamarin.Forms
XAML is a powerful XML-based language created by Microsoft as an alternative to programming UIs. In this Meetup, I was talking about how to come from a newbie and become a pro in XAML and also about the pros and cons of using it compared to making our UIs entirely with code. Also, provided some […]
Campaign: More Dominican in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel), the Ministry of Education (MINERD) and the Research Center for Women’s Action (CIPAF) announced the presentation of the Campaign “More Dominican in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics”. The event took place on Tuesday, March 8th in the […]
Prism in Xamarin Forms Step by Step (Part. 4)
In the third part of this series about Prism, we talked about Modules, Event Aggregator and EventToCommand. This time we will learn about how to use other page types like MasterDetailPage and TabbedPage. Master Detail Page Creating a Master detail page in Prism is really simple, you just have to create a new page that […]
Prism in Xamarin Forms Step by Step (Part. 3)
In the second part of this series about Prism, we talked about Deep linking, Delegate Commands, Platform services, etc. In this article, we will learn about more interesting concepts: Modules, Event Aggregator and EventToCommand. Event Aggregator Let’s say you have an application in which there’s a specific part of your code where you want to […]
Prism in Xamarin Forms Step by Step (Part. 2)
In the first part of this series of articles about Prism, we started by showing the first steps, learning how to install it, register pages and services, basic navigation between pages, passing parameters, etc. In this article, we will continue talking about some more advanced topics on Navigation and also will show some handy stuff […]
Prism in Xamarin Forms Step by Step (Part. 1)
In this article, I will explain to you in a very simple way what Prism is, how to use it, and what you can do with it. This article will include: An overview of what Prism is How to set up How to connect Views with ViewModels How to navigate and different types of navigation […]
Running out of space using Xamarin
I have 4 years developing in Xamarin and I really love it, but one of the things that can sometimes drive me crazy is when my Mac runs out of memory. I have a MacBook Pro with 256 hardDisk, so as you can see I don’t have a lot of space to waste. In this […]