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In the second part of this series of articles, we talked about how to structure your project using Refit. In this article, we are going to talk about how to structure your project to consume multiple APIs. Let’s start understanding the issue In the previous article we were consuming the MakeUp API, in this sample […]
Recently I’ve been talking with some people that are having some difficulties understanding Grids, and to achieve similar things they use other kinds of layout. In this article, I’m going to explain step by step how to use a grid, why, and what you can achieve with it. Let’s start with the basics A grid is a […]
In the first part of this series of articles, we talked about how to use Refit showing some examples of it’s main features. Also we did our first request. In this part, we are going to talk about how to structure your project when using Refit, in a way that can be easier to maintain. […]
Recently Prism for Xamarin Forms has released the version 7.0, which is a great one with lots of improvements. If you have an older version you will see there’s a lot of breaking changes when trying to update your project. In this article, I’m going to guide you step by step by applying the changes needed for […]
In Xamarin Forms there are several ways to consume restful web services, could be by using the Microsoft Http Libraries or third party libraries like Refit, RESTSharp, PortableRest, etc. In this article, I’m going to show you step by step how to interact with a rest api using Refit. This will be a series of articles […]
Using a Picker in Xamarin Forms is really simple you just need to add the control to a page, set items and that’s it. But what happens when we have a design in which we have an icon on the right side of our picker (To add some styling to it)? a solution could be to […]
Imagine that you want to create a tutorial in your app or just want to make the filling of a simple and boring form a much more entertaining experience. Using a “step by step” is the ideal way of keeping the user engaged but also making them follow a very streamlined process while at the […]
The Open Saturday is an event for promoting the Open Source technologies, it takes place every year in the Dominican Republic, in different cities of the country. In this event, we gave a workshop about Xamarin Forms, first steps of how to use it, and some concepts as DataBinding, Pages, Layout, Navigation, etc. Full presentation: Getting started with […]
A good UX practice when developing applications that involve filling a form is to give feedback to the user when a field is wrong or invalid. In this article, we are going to do just that by highlighting the fields where user input is invalid so that they know where exactly is the input issue. The […]
Material design is a comprehensive guide for visual, motion, and interaction design across platforms and devices. In mobile apps, Android support it by using the Material Theme which determines the look and feel of views and activities starting from Android 5.0 (Lollipop) on. One particular thing of Material Design is the use of shadows. In the […]