mobile

Adding tap/click handling to Xamarin.Forms Label is fairly easy. You can do it both in XAML or code behind using GesureRecognizers collection like it is described in this recipe.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory Authentication Libraries (ADAL) is a popular set wrapper around Azure Active Directory API distributed in the form of platform and language specific components.

All the credits for solution described in this post goes my friend qbus. He saved few hours of my life and my sanity ;-)

ModernHttpClient is a great wrapper around native HTTP clients offered by Xamarin. It wraps NSURLSession on iOS and OkHttp on Android.

When you build a multi-platform application in .NET, especially for the mobile, you typically choose between two approaches. One is to code the shared UI layer commonly with Xamarin.

Have you ever encountered an error: Error executing task BuildApk: .../bin/packaged_resources does not exist? If so you probably know that solving this issue can be sometimes quite tricky.

As it’s mentioned in MVVMCross documentation Android is quite specific in terms of navigation requirements. The entry point is statically indicated by MainLauncher = true attribute parameter on the activity.

An error Failure INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_MANIFEST_MALFORMED appears from time to time in world of Android Java developers. However among Xamarin devs it seems to appear much rarely.

If you ever encountered the error AAPT: Unknown option '--no-version-vectors' during the Xamarin build you probably found this page looking for a solution.

If you are using Azure Active Directory services you probably at least considered using ADAL as a client library in you application.