I created a new Android and iOS/NETStandard Xamarin.Forms application with Visual Studio 2017 15.5.4 and immediately got an exclamation mark on Dependencies node in Common project. Trying to […]
Xamarin
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App icons missing after upgrading to iOS 11/Xamarin
I have an Xamarin iOS project and developing in Visual Studio 2017 and have app icons in an asset. Since I’ve upgraded to XCode 9/iOS11 the app icons […]
Visual Studio / Xamarin
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Fixing connection problems between Visual Studio and Mac when building iOS applications
I’ve been digging a bit into problems of connection between Visual Studio (Xamarin.iOS) and a Mac and wanted to share a few tips here. It all started with […]
.net / Android / MonoForAndroid / Windows Phone / Xamarin
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Different XAML layouts for different device orientations in Xamarin.Forms
In case you’ve been wondering how to achieve different XAML layouts for different device orientation with Xamarin.Forms (just Forms from now), here is a solution. The thing is […]
Android / MonoForAndroid / Profiling / Xamarin
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An alpha version of memory profiler for Xamarin Android
Memory profiling is one of the pillars of a good application. Even more important is on mobile devices since memory is usually scarce there. But sadly, there is […]
.net / Android / MonoForAndroid / Xamarin
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Troubleshooting memory leaks in Xamarin.Android
I was testing an application I am building with Xamarin/Android. One of the tests was rotating the device while Google Maps fragment being shown. By default each time […]
Android / Xamarin
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Json.NET, Android/Xamarin and date serialization
In case you are using JSon.NET with Android/Xamarin you might encounter an “Object null reference” exception when trying to serialize (and probably deserialize as well) a type that […]
.net / Android / Development / DevExpress / Profiling / Xamarin
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A memory profiler for Xamarin.Android
Here is a first ever snapshot of my home-grown memory profiler for Xamarin.Android. While very spartan it does the core job – comparing two snapshots for objects with […]
.net / Deployment / Xamarin
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Using Autofac with Xamarin
Good news is that Autofac, my IoC container of choice, works with Xamarin and even within Portable Class Library. However there is one potential pitfall and it seems […]
Android / Xamarin
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Invoking DatePickerDialog asynchronously with Xamarin.Android
Invoking a DatePickerDialog in Xamarin.Android is a bit tricky because it is done through callbacks and at the end one has to dispose it as well. Hence I […]