Charlin's Blog
iOS 11 has a new UI design which include two main changes: Safe area and large titles. The importance of adding support to this in our apps is to respect the platform conventions and also if you don’t add the Safe area it won’t respect the borders in iPhoneX. Some time ago David Ortinau posted a […]
When using ListViews in Xamarin Forms sometimes we have the use case that we have a list with just a few elements, and we want to show each element with a separator line. As we know Xamarin by default set a separator line, but on iOS it is set to all rows even the one […]
Every week I receive messages from people asking me the same questions, “How can I learn Xamarin Forms?”, “How did you learn Xamarin Forms?”, “What should I do to become a pro?”, “How to start?”, etc. In this article, I want to give you my personal recipe on how to learn and how can you […]
Looking at some open source code I see that people barely use AbsoluteLayouts, and I think the main reason of that is because they might not know how to use it. In this article, I’m going to explain step by step how to use it, why, and what you can achieve with it. Let’s start with the […]
In the second part of this series of articles, we talked about how to structure your project using Refit. In this article, we are going to talk about how to structure your project to consume multiple APIs. Let’s start understanding the issue In the previous article we were consuming the MakeUp API, in this sample […]
Recently I’ve been talking with some people that are having some difficulties understanding Grids, and to achieve similar things they use other kinds of layout. In this article, I’m going to explain step by step how to use a grid, why, and what you can achieve with it. Let’s start with the basics A grid is a […]
In the first part of this series of articles, we talked about how to use Refit showing some examples of it’s main features. Also we did our first request. In this part, we are going to talk about how to structure your project when using Refit, in a way that can be easier to maintain. […]
Recently Prism for Xamarin Forms has released the version 7.0, which is a great one with lots of improvements. If you have an older version you will see there’s a lot of breaking changes when trying to update your project. In this article, I’m going to guide you step by step by applying the changes needed for […]
In Xamarin Forms there are several ways to consume restful web services, could be by using the Microsoft Http Libraries or third party libraries like Refit, RESTSharp, PortableRest, etc. In this article, I’m going to show you step by step how to interact with a rest api using Refit. This will be a series of articles […]
Using a Picker in Xamarin Forms is really simple you just need to add the control to a page, set items and that’s it. But what happens when we have a design in which we have an icon on the right side of our picker (To add some styling to it)? a solution could be to […]