Charlin's Blog
On May 27, I had the opportunity to give a talk along with Rendy Del Rosario on how to create white labeling applications using Xamarin Forms. We covered the following topics: what’s a white labeling app, it’s advantages, and how to create one. You can check the slides used here: Creating White labeling app in Xamarin Forms […]
A few years ago, I created a Multilingual plugin to handle multiple language support in Xamarin apps. The reason I did this, was because there was no .NET Standard at the time so for things like getting the device culture we had to create a platform implementation. Many changes has been made and now the […]
When we think about “Sharing a contact”, the first thing that comes to mind is to share the phone number as text so that the user can copy it. But this is not very efficient since the user will have to do many steps if they want to save that number in their contact’s phonebook […]
For the past weeks, I have been teaching Xamarin Forms to Software/System engineering students at INTEC University in the Dominican Republic. As a final project, they had to create a new Xamarin Forms application using any open-source API. Today I’m very proud to show the result of these excellent applications that have been made in […]
On April 4th, Rendy Del Rosario and I gave a talk about how to get ready for your first job as a mobile developer at the Open Saturday, which is an event that promotes the use of open source technologies. We covered several topics such as what are the mobile developer responsibilities, what should know, […]
Recently, I had to update some old Xamarin Forms projects that had a few years without doing any package updates. It is important to mention that my task was just “Update all the packages to the latest version“, but as you probably know Xamarin has changed a lot in recent years. Before updating the packages […]
On March 28 Rendy Del Rosario and I gave a talk about Xamarin Forms best practices in the .NET CONF Focus on Xamarin Latinomarica. We explained best practices in terms of UX, UI, performance, security, etc. You can check the full video here: Place: Online Event Language: Spanish Date: March 28, 2020 Attendees: 762~ Agenda: https://ti.to/comunidad-xamarin-en-espanol/net-conf-focus-on-xamarin-latinoamerica-2020 […]
In mobile apps, providing a good user experience is vital to keep users using them. One way we can improve the UX is when requesting the runtime permissions because if the user accepts/rejects them, the application must be user-friendly when handling each of these scenarios. To convince our users to accept the permissions, we must […]
On March 23 I participated in an online event on how to be productive working from home, along with Eury Perez, Rendy Del Rosario, Leonardo Jimenez, and Edgar Garcia. In this live event, we were talking about what are the challenges, opportunities and some tips for working remotely. Full video: Place: Online Event Language: Spanish Date: March […]
On February 29, I participated in the Mobile Dev Day event in the Dominican Republic. It’s the first edition of this event thta took place in Monte Plata, where more than 100 students/professionals attended. Mobile Dev Day was born from the idea of promoting relevant technologies to younger people in the area of software development […]