Charlin's Blog
A few weeks ago, I got this request from Zaw Htut via Twitter, on how to do a Scroll Reveal using a ListView in Xamarin Forms. In this article, I will show you how to do it step by step. Let’s understand the requirements When looking at the GIF above, an interesting behavior can be […]
A time ago I had a requirement about an expendable paragraph control to support show/hide text when clicking into a button, that way the text is not fully displayed on the screen, and we can save space in the screen. I’m this article I’m going to show you how to do it. Let’s start step […]
On July 24, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in the Latino Net Online Community, giving a talk about Integrating a REST API using Refit in Xamarin Forms, we covered topics related to how to start using a REST API, how to start using Refit, and how to integrate it in a mobile app. Slides […]
— If you don’t know what a converter is, I recommend you reading this article first. Have you ever wondered how to pass multiple parameters to a converter, or how to create properties in a converter to change the value based on them? If you want to know how to achieve it then keep reading […]
On June 16, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated as organizers/moderators in a Xamarin Forms Frameworks debate, we discussed the different framework options we have when developing a Xamarin Forms app. As panelists, we had representations from different Latin American countries: Prism represented by Jesus Ángulo (From Peru) MvvmCross represented by Nico Milcoff (From Argentina) […]
In Xamarin Forms 5 the ability for doing drag and drop was released. In this article, I’ll explore it and show you how to use it by creating a simple Schedule UI, which will have the ability to drag event cards and drop them over a Trash icon to delete them. How it works To […]
A time ago I did an article on how to create a Clearable Date Picker, recently someone asked me to do the same but with a Time Picker. So why not? In this article, I’m going to show you how to create a Time Picker that can be cleared and set to a null date. […]
On April 13, I participated in a cross-platform framework online discussion about the advantages/ disadvantages of using Xamarin Forms vs Flutter vs React Native vs ionic vs Native development. The event was hosted by Luis Matos (La comarca). We had the representation of the following communities: Xamarin Forms -> Charlin Agramonte y Rendy Del Rosario […]
When developing mobile applications, having a good UI/UX is one of the most important things. One way we can help with our UX by having smooth transitions between pages. Xamarin Forms uses the default standard transition navigation: But what if you want to go further? And do some of those cool transition animations that the […]
On March 4, I participated in an online panel with my great friends Angel Garcia, Luis Pujols and Rendy Del Rosario, where we discussed what skills you need to become a Xamarin Developers, tips to start with Xamarin, etc. This event was hosted by Luis Matos (La comarca). You can see the full video here: […]