Just run Xamarin Studio as an Administrator.
The error usually means that the process cannot access a certain resource. In my case that meant insufficient rights; but it could also mean that some file is already in use; in that case – Clean the solution & Rebuild and if that doesn’t work either do a manual cleanup of the solution bu deleting the “bin” and “obj” folders for every project in your solution.
Until recently NativeAds were in a closed beta and only certain developers had access to the ad format, but now, it’s available to everyone. Here’s how you can go about adding one to you Android Xamarin Forms app using a custom renderer. Step 1: Create a view to act as a placeholder for the ad…
There are two key differences compared to ASP.NET: To get started, add an appsettings.json file in your shared project. Make sure you set it’s Build Action to Embeded Resource. Add some keys + value in the file that we can use for testing. For example: Next, we need to get hold of the resource stream….
Your app’s startup time matters because it’s the first impression that the user gets to make about it’s performance. It doesn’t matter what you promise me if it takes 10 seconds to load the app each time I try and use it. I might even uninstall it thinking it doesn’t actually work. And with Xamarin…
One of the first things people think about when developing for a new platform / using a new technology is monetization; and in my case the question is: how easy is it to integrate AdMob? For Xamarin Forms the answer would be: “It depends” – it depends on luck & on the complexity of what…
While Xamarin keeps adding features and improves the performance of Xamarin Forms with each and every update, what they offer in terms of cross-platform user controls is not always enough. In my case, I’ve got an RSS reader app which aggregates news articles from different sources and displays them in a ListView like this: While…
When dealing with mobile clients, it’s not always easy to get them on the same network as your development machine and even when you do, localhost will have a different meaning so you need to use IPs and change bindings and disable SSL or trust self-signed certificates, in short it’s a pain. Say hello to…
