Charlin's Blog
On March 4, I participated in an online panel with my great friends Angel Garcia, Luis Pujols and Rendy Del Rosario, where we discussed what skills you need to become a Xamarin Developers, tips to start with Xamarin, etc. This event was hosted by Luis Matos (La comarca). You can see the full video here: […]
If you don’t know what Prism is, I recommend that you read this article first. On Prism 8.0, the Prism Team released an amazing feature called Regions, which gives us a lot of flexibility in handling different views on a page. To understand it, let’s see the following use case: We have a TabbedView (Or […]
On February 19, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in the Peru .NET Development community, giving a talk about Improving the UX of our Xamarin Forms applications, we covered topics related to the different ideas/tools that you can use to improve the UX of your mobile apps. Slides here: Mejorando el UX de nuestras aplicaciones […]
While developing applications, one of the things that help maintain the quality of your code is adhering to the naming conventions of the programming language you are using. As Xamarin Developers there are predefined rules that we usually follow in our C# code. But what happens with our XAML? Since there’s no pre-defined naming convention […]
Multi-binding is a great feature that was introduced in Xamarin Forms 4.7 that allows the binding of multiple sources to a single target property. It gives us a lot of flexibility as now we don’t need to create multiple UI elements for each bindable property, which improves performance and makes our code cleaner. Why is […]
On December 10, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in the MVP Conf LATAM event. We gave a talk about Developing SOLID Apps, we covered topics such as SOLID Principles, how to identify when an application is not following these principles, and shared final tips. You can check the full event agenda here. Slides here: Desenvolvendo Aplicações SOLID […]
On December 8, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in the Monkey Conf Spain event. We gave a talk about Mastering XAML in Xamarin Forms covering topics such as Triggers, Converters, Multi-Bindings , Control templates, and a lot of technics of how to achieve complex logic that we use to do in code-behind on XAML. […]
On November 30, I participated in a panel called woman, data, wine, and more along with Elena López, Leomaries Reyes, Leslie Ramirez, Elisabeth Sanquintin, Gilda Alvarez, and Yesica Hernandez, where we talked about our experience being a woman in tech. Place: Online Language: Spanish Date: Novembre 30, 2020 Attendees: 200~ Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC7oN96x3JA&t=189s
A Type Converter allows you to convert values from a type to a different type, this is helpful when creating bindable properties in Xamarin Forms because it saves you a lot of time and validation code. In this article, I’m going to show you a few use cases where you can use it. NOTE: If […]
On October 30, Rendy Del Rosario and I gave a talk on C # good practices covering topics such as standardization, simplification, readability, exposure, and performance, we also gave some final tips on how to improve your C # code. Slides here: C# Good practices from Charlin Agramonte Place: Online Language: Spanish Date: October 30, 2020 Attendees: 150~ Video recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q17FnekeYmY