Charlin's Blog
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 […]
Recently I was talking with my designer pal Claudio, about the importance of the little details when developing a mobile app, little things such as colors, formatted text can change the user experience. In this article I’m going to show you a quick tip on how to show the decimal numbers in a better way. […]
Animations are important when developing a mobile app, it can make any boring application into a super fun one. Xamarin Forms makes it really easy to work with animations in the code behind but what if we want to create some simple animations that we can add to any control in a very easy way. […]
When developing mobile applications sometimes we want to take the user to a map when tapping an address/location name. Launching the native map app installed by default (Google Maps in Android/ Maps in iOS) is pretty easy using Xamarin Essentials. To use this library you can do it in three simple steps: 1-Install the plugin […]
When working with the TabbedPage in most cases we have a design requirement that require us to do some customizations. In this article I’m going to show you how to customize your TabbedPage by doing some cool stuff, that covers the following topics: Bottom Tabbed Page Adding custom font/selecting text color to the Tab item […]
When developing forms, a good practice is that when the keyboard is shown we shouldn’t hide the text entries behind it. Instead of that the text entry should raise up while typing. This is pretty easy to do in Xamarin Forms, by just adding the entry inside the Scrollview and that’s it. But what happens […]
MDX is an event that takes place over a whole Saturday which promotes the use of mobile applications technologies.This event is an act for people who wants to get started in the field of computer science. The past Saturday November 18th was it’s first edition, I gave a talk about Xamarin Forms. In this talk […]
The Open Saturday is an event that promotes the use of open source technologies. It takes place every year in different cities of Dominican Republic. The past saturday November 3rd, we gave a workshop about Xamarin Forms from Zero to Hero in the Open Saturday Santo Domingo. In this workshop we talked about the basics in Xamarin […]
Last saturday we celebrated a .NET day at INTEC, which had more than 120 attendees plus six awesome national/international speakers. Also, we launched a new developer community called .NET Dominicana with the purpose of giving talks, workshop and sharing knowledge about .NET related topics. Here the event timeline: Place: INTEC, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Organizers: .NET […]
In a previous article we talked about Triggers, in which basically we were using it for use cases when we wanted to change a control value based on a property value in the model. So instead of writing the code in our model, we do in our XAML. Converters use a similar concept, just instead […]