Charlin's Blog
When developing UI a common use case is to hide/show a View according to a certain condition, when thinking on how to do this the first thing that comes to mind is to add an IsVisible property and just hide/show it according to a condition but doing that has performance implications since hiding an element […]
Recently I was exploring a few random applications and found an interesting behavior that was about scratching an image and revealing the result while doing it. So I was curious about how to do that in Xamarin Forms and came across this sample, so I took it as a base and created my own ScratchViewControl […]
When I talk to people about why they should start writing, most of the comments are “I don’t know how to write”, “I don’t know how to start”, “I’m not a writer”, “I don’t have the discipline”, etc. 3 years ago before starting my blog I thought exactly the same but HEY I started writing […]
On August 15, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in the Content Creator Day event organized by the GDG Dominican community. In this event, we gave a talk about “starting my blog” covering the following topics: how to start it, how to maintain it, how to promote it, maintain it, and final tips. Slides here: Starting my […]
On August 8, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in the CodeCampSDQ live event. We gave a talk about C# Best practices covering topics such as standardization, simplification, readability, exposure, and performance. You can check the full event agenda here. Slides here: C# Best Practices from Charlin Agramonte Place: Online Language: Spanish Date: August 8, 2020 Attendees: 5000~ Event: https://codecampsdq.com/ Video recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQdgjq3pL7s (Min […]
A common requirement in mobile applications is the ability to show/hide a password field. Googling I discovered that there are many ways to do it, some people create a custom control, others prefer to use a custom renderer, effects, etc. In this post, I want to show you a very simple way to achieve this […]
Xamarin Assemble is the largest annual Argentine event on Mobile Cross Platform application development. The main objective of Xamarin Assemble is to establish the best speakers in the Xamarin community under one roof and provide knowledge to students and professionals. On July 18, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in this great event giving a […]
I recently developed a simple control to transition between two cards using an overlay animation in Xamarin Forms. In this post, I want to share the result and also explain how I achieved each of my requirements. Let’s start When creating a custom control the first thing that comes to my mind is to separate […]
On June 18, I participated in a Podcast along with Rendy Del Rosario on .NET MAUI organized by Rodrigo Diaz Concha in his online Podcast called Interfaz. In this podcast, we talked about What’s .NET MAUI, it’s relationship with .NET/Xamarin.Forms, the announced roadmap and other cool stuff released at the Build 2020 event. We recommended […]
— This article is part of the snippet June calendar by Luis Matos, click here to check all the great contributions”. Some time ago I read this great article in the Xamarin blog about adding validations in Xamarin Forms Enterprise Apps. In that post, they talked about a great validation model based on Validable objects, […]