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Material Design FAB in Xamarin.Forms
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Material Design FAB in Xamarin.Forms

James Montemagno recently blogged about More Material Design for Your Android Apps. In the post, James discussed two controls that he has built around Material Design components. One of the components is the

  • Chris Riesgo
    Chris Riesgo
1 min read
xamarin

Android Swipe ListView for Xamarin

Open up your favorite Android e-mail app. As you scroll through your messages, you instinctually start swiping them left and right. You're either archiving the message - because you might need that arduino

  • Chris Riesgo
    Chris Riesgo
1 min read
xamarin

Solved: My HTTP(S) Intent Filter Doesn't Work

You've added an HTTP or HTTPS intent filter to your Android app with the hope of having your app launch when someone navigates to your defined Url. Seemed easy enough. Code in place,

  • Chris Riesgo
    Chris Riesgo
1 min read
Run an Android Emulator in OS X from Xamarin in Parallels
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Run an Android Emulator in OS X from Xamarin in Parallels

If you've been looking for a way to develop your Xamarin Android apps in a Parallels Desktop Windows VM, but run the app in an Android emulator on your Mac, this post is

  • Chris Riesgo
    Chris Riesgo
3 min read
haxm

HAXM Failure after Windows 8 Update

As recommended by anyone that is doing Xamarin.Android development, I'm using Intel's Hardware Acceleration Manager (HAXM) to make my Android Emulators run faster (more here). After this week's Windows 8 security updates

  • Chris Riesgo
    Chris Riesgo
1 min read
ibeacons

Xamarin.Android iBeacon Service

With the emergence of iOS7, an interesting little nugget quietly came along - iBeacons. What are Beacons? Basically they're just a form of micro-location that uses Bluetooth Low Energy(BLE/Bluetooth 4.0/

  • Chris Riesgo
    Chris Riesgo
1 min read
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