by Dan | Mar 30, 2020 | News
Will the AIs take over in a Terminator-like scenario? We shouldn’t rule it out, experts tell us, so caution as we go is the best course. It’s apparently not likely that a machine will become self-aware and plot an AI coup. It’s far more likely that...
by Dan | Jul 16, 2018 | Mobile C# Cafe
A drill-down list is a list of tappable items selected to navigate to a new page. There are many ways to build them using Xamarin.Forms, and the following recipe covers the most common type: by item. Other common types include lists by page and grouped lists. A...
by Dan | Apr 16, 2016 | Mobile C# Cafe
Pages, layouts, and views make up the core of the Xamarin.Forms UI. Pages are the primary container, and each screen is populated by a single Page class. A page may contain variations of the Layout class, which may then hold other layouts, used for placing and sizing...
by Dan | Apr 6, 2016 | Mobile C# Cafe
This past month I’ve been interviewed for two podcasts on a range of topics such as Xamarin, my book, the book tour, and a little bit about me personally. 1. Yet Another Podcast #150 Technologist-of-note Jesse Liberty asks me insightful questions about these...
by Dan | Sep 16, 2015 | Mobile C# Cafe
Navigation gives a user what they need to get around an app quickly, moving from screen-to-screen with confidence and ease. This may include menus, tappable icons, buttons, tabs, and list items, as well as many types of gesture-sensitive screens to display data,...
