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Introducing My Stream Timer: A Countdown Timer for OBS

I have been streaming on Twitch for over 6 months now. I stream both code on my personal Twitch channel [https://twitch.tv/jamesmontemagno] and I also stream games and recordings of Nintendo Dispatch [http://nintendodispatch.com] with my buddy Michael over on the official Dispatch Twitch channel [http://twitch.tv/nintendodispatch]. One thing that always bothered me was having to manually mess around with apps to get a simple countdown timer. They were too complex, had too many options, and had…

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The Beautiful & Complex FlexLayout Comes to Hanselman.Forms

Last week I wrote about my new quest to fully optimize and enhance Hanselman.Forms [https://montemagno.com/updating-hanselman-forms-bottom-tabs-bindable-layout/]. This involves using the latest and greatest in Xamarin.Forms and Xamarin.Essentials, but it also means spicing up the app with some lovely visuals and design. My first quest was to re-design the podcast section of the mobile app to create a list in grid form of different podcast that Hanselman produces. So, first things first we shoul…

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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

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

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

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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February 11th, 2019

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

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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Introducing My Stream Timer: A Countdown Timer for OBS

The Beautiful & Complex FlexLayout Comes to Hanselman.Forms

Control Text Size on Android Bottom Navigation View

Modernizing Hanselman.Forms: A Customizable Brand Mobile App

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

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

Conference Organizers & Attendees: Donate Your Swag

Why I Choose Xamarin to Build Cross-Platform Apps

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