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Discover 'FFLoadingImage' library Today I want to make a quick presentation of a really good library for Xamarin Forms . This is the kind of library we would like to see more often on XF... This one is dedicated to image manipulation. It's called " FFImageLoading ". If I take time to make this presentation, it's because I think that we should use it in almost all our "basic" Xamarin Forms applications. When I say basic, I exclude Games or other specific apps. But in my mind, I suggest you to change all your traditional "<Image />" by "<FF:CachedImage />" in your apps. Before to start, where to find it ? On Github:  https://github.com/luberda-molinet/FFImageLoading On Nuget:  https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.FFImageLoading Main features So what will you find using this library ? I will not explain all the details but the main interesting features of the library. Multi-platform The good po

Quick Introduction It took me some times to implement Parse's push notifications in my Xamarin Forms (Android) application. I find out some issues and made workarounds. Strangely, I have the impression that I'm a rare guy working with Xamarin Forms and Parse... But maybe you are in the same situation that I was. So just read the following. The context I'm actually making a (cool) Xamarin Forms app (maybe I will talk about it later in another post). One of my final steps is to implement Push notifications. Details of the context of my project are the following: - Xamarin Forms (Android & iOS) app - I use Parse server for my business server. Actually I host my Parse server at  https://parse.buddy.com for convenient reasons but I could host it on many other servers. - So logically, for the push notifications, I would like to use Parse push notification service. - In order to use Parse Services, I use Parse .NET SDK (latest available version is v.1.7.0