Xamarin.Ios

My Favorite Xamarin Studio Features

There have been a lot of exciting announcements recently from Xamarin for developers. First, is that Xamarin Indie now has a monthly subscription option for just $25 a month! Then there was the release of Xamarin Studio 5.2, which brought awesome new features such as side-by-side editing and awesome new NuGet updates. I have been a Visual Studio user for probably over 10 years and I have been using Xamarin Studio for nearly 3 years now. I have to say I find myself more and more developing on my…

James Montemagno

Pull To Refresh for Xamarin.Forms iOS

Update Xamarin.Forms now includes Pull To Refesh out of the box. Please read my article on it. If you have read my blog then you know that I love pull to refresh functionality in all of my apps. Your users are expecting this functionality in all of their apps and I believe that it should be drop dead simple to bing pull to refresh to an MVVM style of development. Xamarin.Forms shines in a lot of areas and the team has made it really easy to extend the built in controls or add brand new controls…

James Montemagno

Animated GIF UIImageView in Xamarin.iOS

A little over a week ago I participate in a Nokia #DVLUP hackathon to create a Windows Phone app and get it published in under 2 weeks. I created something really simple and fun, which was Puppy Kitty Overflow that displays animated Dog and Cat images from catoverlflow.com and dogoverflow.com. I was able to release it and get it on the Windows Phone Store in under 1 week! When I created the app though I decided that I would start with a PCL as I knew I wanted to bring it over to iOS and Android…

James Montemagno

Simple re-usable Swipe To Delete Xamarin.iOS + MvvmCross

I was recently implementing some swipe to delete and edit mode in my Xamarin.iOS/MvvmCross applications. It is very common that you will have a custom TableViewDataSource that will implement and override some methods to handle this for you. It is very well documented on the Xamarin website. However I have always found myself writing the same code over and over again for custom data source. With MvvmCross we should all be about the code re-use. So I broke it down into this: A simple IRemove.cs i…

James Montemagno

MvxUIRefreshControl for #MvvmCross

Implementing MvxTableViews and MvxCollectionViews are extremely simple. From binding to accessory or cell clicks, to implementing advanced logic for custom cells they just plain work in MvvmCross. However, today I ran into one issue that needed to be solved, an Mvx binding for UIRefreshControl. <br./></br.> In iOS6+ land adding pull to refresh is EXTREMELY simple. You can read all about it, but basically you need to just implement 1 method and you can even set a custom string and st…

James Montemagno

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My Favorite Xamarin Studio Features

Pull To Refresh for Xamarin.Forms iOS

Animated GIF UIImageView in Xamarin.iOS

Simple re-usable Swipe To Delete Xamarin.iOS + MvvmCross

MvxUIRefreshControl for #MvvmCross

James Montemagno

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