Mobile Apps

Styling Custom Components in React Native Using TypeScript

I recently ran into an issue with providing style properties to custom React Native components written in TypeScript. When defining the type of the style property, we were using the ViewStyle and TextStyle types provided by React Native. interface Props { textStyle?: TextStyle; viewStyle?: ViewStyle; } class BlogPost extends React.PureComponent<Props> { render() { return ( <View […]

Programmatically Connecting to WiFi in Your Xamarin.Forms App

With the dawn of the Internet of Things, smart homes, and connected devices, mobile apps have become key elements of creating harmony between everything. Most IoT devices require users to provision their devices on a home wireless network, which can sometimes cause poor user experience. However, apps have the ability to ease these pain points […]

Drawing Shapes with SkiaSharp

My team was working on an activity tracking application and wanted to be able to display segments of time on a radial gauge.  When implementing this feature, I initially tried using some libraries specifically designed to build arcs, but I was disappointed by their lack of flexibility. When my pair recommended looking into SkiaSharp, I was […]

Exporting a Java Library to a Xamarin.Forms Android Project

The device on our current project has two unique software development kits (one for Android and one for iOS). My team wanted to use Xamarin.Forms to create an application for the device so that the core logic of the app could be stored in one place.  However, in order to also incorporate the platform-specific SDK methods, […]

Explorations in Adapting Redux to C#

We’ve been using Redux a lot lately at Atomic, and we’ve come to appreciate how a centralized holder of application state can simplify application architecture. In a few different projects, we’ve used this architecture as inspiration for mobile applications in Objective C, Java (for Android), and Swift. Independently, we’ve also been using Xamarin on our […]