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,...
by Dan | Aug 16, 2015 | Mobile C# Cafe
Choosing quickly from a long list of items is one of the key offerings of the mobile UI. The limited real estate on mobile phone screens makes data grids a challenge and leads to extensive and creative use of lists. Grouping of items, scrolling, gesture-sensitivity,...
by Dan | Jul 15, 2015 | Mobile C# Cafe
Tappable images and icons are common in mobile applications for actions and navigation. Like many Xamarin.Forms views, the Image doesn’t have a click or tap event and must be wired up using the GestureRecognizer class. A gesture recognizer is a class that can be added...
