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Creating a cross-platform chat app using Xamarin Forms and SignalR

ByMarius Bughiu

In less than 5 minutes. First step is to create your Xamarin Forms projects – start with a blank shell app – and add an additional blank ASP.NET Core project to the solution – we will use it to host our SignalR backend. Once the projects are setup, we begin by implementing the ChatHub which…

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How to publicly expose your local SignalR service for consumption by mobile clients using ngrok

ByMarius Bughiu

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…