Charlin's Blog
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 […]
Grial UI Kit provides XAML templates, custom controls, helpers and resources that accelerate the creation of Xamarin.Forms apps. In this article, I’ll be exploring the Grial UI Kit, talking about how to use it, pricing and some personal feedback, etc. Let’s start To start using the Grial UI Kit, you need to get a license. […]
On February 17, I participated in the launch event of the Microsoft Developers Community in Haiti along with other MVPs from the Dominican Republic (Leslie Ramirez, Elena Lopez, Leomaris Reyes, and Rendy Del Rosario). It was a great event packed with an agenda full of amazing content such as: Azure, Xamarin, Power BI, C#, etc. […]
When developing a mobile app persisting data is important, why? Because a mobile app is not a web app, it shouldn’t depend on having a reliable internet connection 100% of the time. For example, when you open a mobile app to see the list of transactions if you don’t have internet you will only see […]
Very often we want ways to improve our apps user experience to make users more productive and comfortable using it, often we see that by pressing an app icon it displays a menu of quick options, which is a pretty handy and quick improvement if used wisely for relevant actions. This concept has different names […]
Syncfusion is a UI library of components for WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET WebForms, MVC, Core, UWP and Xamarin. A few months ago they released an Essential UI kit which is basically a set of XAML templates for Xamarin Forms applications. In this article, I will be exploring this UI Kit and giving my own personal opinion […]
When developing Xamarin Forms applications there are some converters that we use very often. In the following article will do a compilation of the most useful converters I have used, so that you can easily use them in your projects. (In case you are not familiar with converters you can check this article). Here the […]
Almost two years ago I wrote an article about how to update your project to Prism 7.0. Since then there have been a lot of changes introduced in Prism, so in this article, I’ll be doing a recap of versions 7.1 and 7.2. Version 7.1 Using INavigationParameters instead of NavigationParameters If you updated your project […]
To show a dialog in Prism we have the pre-registered service IPageDialogService, but what happens when you want to show a custom dialog? In version 7.2 they introduced the IDialogService which is a pre-registered service that allows you to show custom dialogs. Let’s use it step by step 1.Create a view with your custom design […]
On Sept 27 Rendy Del Rosario and I gave a talk about Xamarin Forms best practices in the Monkey Fest Latam 2019. We explained best practices in terms of UX, UI, performance, security, etc. You can check the full presentation here: Xamarin Forms Best Practices from Charlin Agramonte Place: Ruta N- Medellin, Colombia Language: Spanish Date: Sept 27, 2019 Attendees: 150~ Event: https://www.monkeyfestlatam.io/ […]