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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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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. […]