Right, so you are one of those guys targeting UWP with their Xamarin Forms app… aand you want to use the new Acrylic brush to make you application stand out. Say no more. We won’t be using any 3rd party library/package to do this and we’ll be working in the platform specific project; so open…
In one of my previous posts on How To: Add AdMob to your Xamarin Forms app I was giving a piece of code that looked like this: That will work perfectly with Banner ads but it’s going to fail if you choose to use a Smart Banner. For a Smart Banner, the sizing is a…
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…
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…
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…
Updating the Cordova version requires you to edit the platforms.js file found in: %APPDATA%\Roaming\npm\node_modules\vs-mda\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\src\cordova You can change the version individually for each platform, tho I suggest you use the same version for all.Also, it might be the case you’re looking to update only because of the Google Play warning regarding the high severity cross-application scripting…
This is a question that came after during discussion with a colleague over some company worth over 20 trillion dollars – and we just couldn’t imagine how that much money would look like in cash. Just to get an idea of it, we calculated how many hundred dollar bills it would take to circle the…
To add speech recognition to our app we will be using the newly released version of the Windows Phone toolkit (release June 2013) – which adds a nice new control called SpeechTextBox (that does exactly what you think). You can get the latest build using NuGet or you can download the source from CodePlex. Once you’ve…
I’ve covered in a previous post how to create wide tiles for your Windows Phone 7 application. Now it’s time to bring them to life. The easiest way to do so is by using a ScheduledTaskAgent. To create one go ahead and add a new project to your solution and from the project templates list…
I’ve recently come across an article in the Nokia Developer Wiki about creating live tiles (including wide tile) for both Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 by writing a single piece of code that works in both versions of the OS. To do this you will need to use the MangoPollo library which you…
Decided that I’d share a really simple helper class that I often use in my Windows Phone apps. It’s called IsolatedStorageSettingsHelper and it only has three methods: This is not much, but that’s all I ever needed for my apps. Hope it will be of help. Code below.
This graphics glitch is a known bug in Firefox running on Windows 8. It appears to manifest only on machines that run on nVidia graphics cards and it is caused by the browser using hardware acceleration. The fix is simple – disable hardware acceleration from your browser’s settings menu. The strange colors will be gone…