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Control Text Size on Android Bottom Navigation View

It seems as though my obsession with the Android Bottom Navigation View aka Bottom Tabs will never end! This time I got a question about controlling the size of the text when the user taps on a tab. The default behavior is to zoom in on the text: Inside of your Android project's Resources/values folder create a new file called dimens.xml if it doesn't exist. Then add the following XML to override the size of the text when it is active and not active: <resources xmlns:tools="h…

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Modernizing Hanselman.Forms: A Customizable Brand Mobile App

Modernizing Hanselman.Forms: A Customizable Brand Mobile App

The night before we launched Xamarin.Forms in mid-2014, I was having a conversation with Nat about creating a nice out of the box real world example of a Xamarin.Forms app. We discussed several different app ideas, but we were short on time as it was already 8PM at night. Then I thought perhaps I could create an app for my idol and fellow Chipotle lover Scott Hanselman. Fast-forward 8 hours and several cups of coffee later and Hanselman.Forms was born [https://www.github.com/jamesmontemagno/Hans…

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Xamarin.Forms: Fully Customize Bottom Tabs on Android & Turn Off Shifting

Xamarin.Forms: Fully Customize Bottom Tabs on Android & Turn Off Shifting

It seems as if the BottomNavigationView aka Bottom Tabs on Android is one of the top things that I write about on my blogs. There was an introduction post [https://blog.xamarin.com/exploring-androids-bottom-navigation-view/], how to use reflection to remove shifting on native Xamarin.Android [https://montemagno.com/remove-shifting-bottomnavigationview-android/], official support in Xamarin.Forms [https://montemagno.com/xamarin-forms-official-bottom-navigation-bottom-tabs-on-android/] , and most…

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Xamarin.Forms: Drop Shadow/Elevation on Android Bottom Navigation TabbedPage

Xamarin.Forms: Drop Shadow/Elevation on Android Bottom Navigation TabbedPage

It is a tale as old of time fighting with Android elevation and drop shadows. First it was the Toolbar [https://montemagno.com/xamarin-forms-drop-shadows-on-navigation-toolbar/] on a Navigation page and now it is the new fancy bottom tabs [https://montemagno.com/xamarin-forms-official-bottom-navigation-bottom-tabs-on-android/] that we got in Xamarin.Forms 3.1. I know what you are thinking... another custom renderer... NOPE! You just have to know to set a few different properties correctly. H…

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Conference Organizers & Attendees: Donate Your Swag

I consider myself extremely fortunate to be able to attend and present to so many amazing developers at great conferences around the globe. I even get to attend a conference from time to time, but one thing has always bothered me...The Stuff We All Get aka SWAG! Don't get me wrong, I love swag! Who doesn't love a cool bag, mug, or shirt branded with our companies favorite logos? The first time you walk into a conference it is a great feeling to be handed so much awesome free stuff that y…

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Why I Choose Xamarin to Build Cross-Platform Apps

Why I Choose Xamarin to Build Cross-Platform Apps

It has been a little over 7 years since I left my day job at Canon crafting wonderful printer workflow management software, to dive into the world of mobile development. At the time it was an extremely tough decision because I had been only working on desktop Windows Forms and WPF applications, and this change meant entering a whole new unknown world of platforms that I didn't know much about. This move was not only changing my main day job, but also the city that I lived in with a fresh sta…

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Super Simple Git Tagging & Releases in Azure DevOps

I am going to be honest with all of you, I never really understood Git tags [https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging] and releases inside of GitHub. In my old TFVC days I would just create a branch with the name of the release and call that my "tag" so I could always go back to it. What sparked my interest was seeing a bunch of popular projects that I was using combine tags with the GitHub releases. I started reading the documentation and still wasn't sold on it because I…

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Enhanced Mobile App Versioning in Azure DevOps (VSTS) with Mobile Tasks

A little over a year ago, I introduced my Mobile App Tasks Extensions for iOS and Android [https://montemagno.com/introducing-vsts-mobile-build-tasks-extension/] into the Azure DevOps (VSTS) marketplace. For iOS and Android developers it made the tasks of versioning and adjusting package names a breeze. They were written completely in TypeScript with VS Code [https://montemagno.com/building-vsts-tasks-with-typescript-and-vs-code/] and of course are open source on GitHub [https://github.com/james…

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