Using F# for Enterprise Applications
Though I have posted a few times on some of the awesome things F# can do for your code, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s always good choice for each of […]
API Convergence Gets Real in Windows 10
Last year, I wrote a universal app named Pic Me (later renamed to “Picture Me”) for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. The main reason I wrote it was that […]
Wintellect.Analyzers for VS 2015 RC and Fixing Analyzer Install Problems with the Default Template Projects
Now that Visual Studio 2015 RC is fresh off the build machines and available for everyone, I’ve updated my Wintellect.Analyzers project (http://johnr.us/1bEO4h8) with full RC support. Go forth and add […]
Using AdaptiveTrigger to Build Adaptive UIs in Windows 10
Like a lot of developers, I’ve been watching the development of Windows 10 and digesting all the features Microsoft announced at BUILD. And I’m eager to build apps that target […]
Supercharging Xamarin Forms with Custom Renderers, Part 5
Making Xamarin Forms Richer with Custom Visual Elements The BoxView class is handy for drawing rectangles in a Xamarin Forms UI. On Windows Phone, a BoxView renders a Rectangle element. […]
Consistent Mobile UI Theming
Xamarin Forms allows us to write code once that targets all three major platforms – iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. But the default color palette for the platforms differ – […]
Hiding the Android Activity icon in Xamarin Forms
In my previous post, I introduced a simple demo app that used the Stack Navigation Pattern. This is a standard pattern frequently used on all phone platforms to present hierarchically […]
Built-in Text and Font Styles in Xamarin Forms
Xamarin Forms provides a great foundation for building cross-platform native mobile applications. It eliminates a lot of mundane platform-specific work that would otherwise need to be done multiple times (and […]
Implementing John Conway’s Game of Life in Xamarin Forms
John Conway’s Game of Life, presented to the world in the October 1970 issue of Scientific American magazine, is one of the most popular computer simulations of all time. In […]