Charlin's Blog
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 […]
Yesterday I participated in an event called “Woman changing the world” organized by Mujeres TICs which is a community that seeks to inspire, motivate and educate girls in information and communication technologies based in the Dominican Republic. In this event, I was part of a panel composed by Microsoft MVP Girls in DR, in which […]