Charlin's Blog
A quick tour flow allows you to understand what’s an application about and how it works before using it. The most common way is by creating an Onboarding screen (Which is an independent screen that shows some instructive images on how to use the application), but that’s not the only way to do this. In […]
A time ago Steven Thewissen created a great plugin called StateSquid which allowed displaying a specific view when a page is in a specific state. It has evolved and now it’s part of the Xamarin Community Toolkit. In this article, I’m going to show you how to use and integrate it to load data into […]
Loading data is one of the most common tasks that we do in a mobile application. It can also be the thing that bothers our users the most when using it due to the time they must wait to obtain the desired result, that’s why we need to provide the best user experience possible to […]
In the first part of this article, I showed different tips when creating a custom control, in this part I’ll be covering some additional tips. As in the previous article, I’m NOT going to show you how to create a custom control (if you want to learn about that you can read this great article by […]
On October 1st, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in the XamarinExpertDay by giving a talk on how to improve the UX of Xamarin Forms Apps, we covered topics related to different UX areas such as Splash, Login/Register Forms, Profile/Contacts, Loading, Internet Connection, and General. Slides here: Improving the ux of our xamarin forms apps […]
Creating a custom control is a common thing to do when developing a Xamarin Forms application. In many cases, the main purpose of creating one is to have a reusable control that we can use across all our application. In this article, I’m NOT going to show you how to create a custom control (if […]
A few weeks ago, I got this request from Zaw Htut via Twitter, on how to do a Scroll Reveal using a ListView in Xamarin Forms. In this article, I will show you how to do it step by step. Let’s understand the requirements When looking at the GIF above, an interesting behavior can be […]
A time ago I had a requirement about an expendable paragraph control to support show/hide text when clicking into a button, that way the text is not fully displayed on the screen, and we can save space in the screen. I’m this article I’m going to show you how to do it. Let’s start step […]
— If you don’t know what a converter is, I recommend you reading this article first. Have you ever wondered how to pass multiple parameters to a converter, or how to create properties in a converter to change the value based on them? If you want to know how to achieve it then keep reading […]
In Xamarin Forms 5 the ability for doing drag and drop was released. In this article, I’ll explore it and show you how to use it by creating a simple Schedule UI, which will have the ability to drag event cards and drop them over a Trash icon to delete them. How it works To […]