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Building a Horizontal Picker or Spinner in Kotlin

There are a lot of widgets in Android, unfortunately a picker or spinner isn't one of them. Follow these steps to add one to your Kotlin project.

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An Introduction to Content Localization in Android Apps

When learning any new language, you need to understand the testing frameworks. Kotlin makes it easy by its similarity and interoperability with Java.

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Unit Testing Custom Xamarin.Forms Controls

How to write unit tests for custom Xamarin.Forms controls, why you may want to write unit tests at the view level, and how to overcome initial hurdles.

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Handling Orientation Changes in Xamarin.Forms – 5 Approaches

Xamarin Forms' built-in approach to orientation changes is only for very basic views. I evaluated 4 other methods, then merged them to create my own.

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Styling Custom Components in React Native Using TypeScript

Figuring out the proper type to use when passing in custom styles to React Native components can be tricky since there's little documentation. Using the StyleProps type gives you n

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Programmatically Connecting to WiFi in Your Xamarin.Forms App

Improve user experience by programmatically connecting a mobile app to WiFi. Both Android and iOS now provide a way to do this within your Xamarin.Forms app.

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Adding an EmbedIO Embedded Web Server to Your Xamarin Forms App

To fake out our API for testing purposes, we used EmbedIO to create a local server within the actual Xamarin Forms app to make API calls to.

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Drawing Shapes with SkiaSharp

My goal was to draw an arc that would display each segment in our list with the correct length and a color corresponding to its category.

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Exporting a Java Library to a Xamarin.Forms Android Project

To incorporate the platform-specific SDK methods, we had to export Java code (for Android) as libraries and then import them into a Xamarin.Forms project.

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A Quick Android Snackbar Tutorial: Setup, Action Handling, and UI Customization

Snackbars show lightweight feedback to users and are easy to set up. This tutorial shows a basic case, action handling, and UI customization for Android.

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Explorations in Adapting Redux to C#

The Redux model to managing application state is great. See some implementation strategies to adapt the model to make great use of C# and .NET.

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Supercharging Xamarin Studio’s Play Button with Custom Build Steps

Here’s how we leverage custom build steps in Xamarin Studio to make our workdays easier... No more "relying on an error-prone hominid."

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