Charlin's Blog
The past week I had the opportunity to participate in a great conference called Monkey Fest Latam. In which Rendy Del Rosario and I gave the opening keynote about the evolution of Xamarin Forms. We talked about the history of Xamarin Forms, the main features released along the years and ended with the new big announcements. You can […]
Visual State Manager is a concept that was introduced in Xamarin Forms 3.0 which allows you to do visual changes according to a state. So basically according to a status change, you can change the properties of any UI control. By default, it has 3 pre-defined states: Normal, Disabled, Focused. A good use case then […]
With all the updates is easy to lose track of all the magic that you can do now in Xamarin Forms. If you developed using Forms a few months ago probably there were a lot of things that you needed a custom renderer to achieve them but now things are finally changing. Here is a […]
Let’s start Adding your credit card information in an application involves many validations since you want to make sure that all information is added properly. There are a few things we can do to improve the user experience when adding this information such as presenting the form in a nice friendly way and adding instant […]
On June 25, I had the opportunity of giving a talk with Rendy Del Rosario on how to start with Xamarin Forms and all the reasons of why we love it. There were also other great talks: Developing with Azure SQL Database by Emmanuel Madrigal Azure SQL Database Machine Learning by Alberto Morillo Azure DevOps […]
CodeCamp SDQ is an event organized every year in the Dominican Republic opened to any developer who wants to participate. On June 1st I had the opportunity to give a talk in this event with Rendy Del Rosario about how to start with Prism in Xamarin Forms. There were also other great talks about Xamarin: […]
Last week in Dotnetdo we organized the Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event RECAP where we talked about the new features in VS2019. The agenda was: What’s New – Overview by Luis Pujols DevOps and .NET Core by José Ruiz VS For Mac & Xamarin by Charlin Agramonte Machine Learning & VS Subscriptions by Rendy Del […]
A XAML markup extension is a class that implements the IMarkupExtension or IMarkupExtension<T>. Basically, it allows you to set element properties referenced indirectly from a different source. In Xamarin Forms there are many markup extensions pre-created (x:Static, x:Reference, x:Null, x:Type, etc). In this article, I will focus on two very popular markup extensions which are: […]
On April 9th I had the opportunity to give a talk with Rendy Del Rosario about Prism from Zero to Hero in Xamarin Forms, the event was hosted by DotNetters in Zaragoza – Spain. In this talk we covered the following topics: What’s Prism? Benefits to use it Config a new project Connect Views/ViewModels Navigation/Services […]
When developing mobile applications, handling the internet connection changes it’s a must thing to do. In most popular apps, when there’s no connection a message is shown to give awareness to the user about why they won’t see any new content. In this article, I will show you how to do just that in Xamarin […]