xamarin

In my previous post I showed how to introduce search as type behavior into Xamarin.Forms app with standard Forms Behaviors.

Search as type functionality is quite often seen on the web as well as in mobile apps. Let’s see how to make it work in Xamarin.

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.

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.

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.

Working on a bug fix in MVVMCross-based mobile application I noticed a strange behavior. The navigation to other view model I put in async Init<TInit>(TInit parameters) which as executed on the first view model in my app was running twice.

Considering Xamarin there can be many reasons for need of screen resolution detection in mobile app. You may have more complex logic of loading your resources possibly split between PCL and Android/iOS projects.