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xamarin

Mobile Apps

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.
Mobile Apps

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.
Android Development

Creating BroadcastReceivers that Run while Your Android App Is Backgrounded

How we got our Xamarin Android app to listen for a Bluetooth “bond state change,” even when the app is backgrounded, using BroadcastReceivers.
Mobile Apps

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.
Mobile Apps

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."
Mobile Apps

Simplify Your Storage in Xamarin with SimpleStorage

An introduction to Xamarin SimpleStorage and some key extensions you can use to simplify your mobile application's storage.
iOS / OS X

Utilizing the iOS Background with Xamarin: Part 2

Intro to Background Transfer Service in iOS—a service that allows apps to download/upload large amounts of data in the background with no time limits.
iOS / OS X

Utilizing the iOS Background with Xamarin: Part 1

Even platform-specific APIs like iOS Background Fetch are no match for Xamarin! Here's how to implement basic iOS Background Fetch with Xamarin.
Ember.js

Native HTML Apps with Xamarin

Why and how to use Xamarin as a Cordova replacement. Shows how to set up a multi-platform mobile native web app with two-way JavaScript interoperability.

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