A simple developer's journey

  [Xamarin Forms] Complete guide to design a TOAST component In this guide, we will first show you how to design a toast component in Xamarin Forms (adding transition animations to the component), then in a second part, we list some existing controls that you can use directly... Custom Toast design in Xamarin Forms  Designing a "toast" component in Xamarin Forms involves creating a custom control to display brief messages to the user.  I will show you bellow a simple example on how to create a Toast component, and we will also how to add transition animation. Here are the steps to design and implement a toast component: Step 1: Create the Toast View First, you need to create a custom view that represents the toast message. You can add all the UI controls that you need to fit your needs (like an icon image...) 1.1 Create a ToastView class Create a new class ToastView that inherits from ContentView . public class ToastView : ContentView { public ToastView ( strin...

New 'Xamarin' menu available If you are a Xamarin developer, you will be happy to know that the "full" Xamarin Platform's documentation is now available on microsoft.com website.  This website looks really clear , so it should be easy to find what you need... Microsoft documentation portal:   https://docs.microsoft.com If you select the "Xamarin" menu, you will be redirected to the following page: This is the entry point to many chapters describing the platform like: - technical / language documentation - UI (with XAML) documentation but you will also find: - deployement tutorials - mobile continuous delivery tutorials - data / database articles - code samples - and so much more ! So let's go coding Xamarin !

In its original blog post ( that you can find it here ), Scott Guthrie has announced that Microsoft acquired Xamarin, the company that gave us the technology to develop mobile apps in C# for  iOS, Android and WP :) Wednesday, February 24, 2016 In my mind it s a good news for the futur evolution of the technology, however we can ask ourself about the futur development and pricing strategies... Hope it will be more accessible, at less in term of pricing, than the actual version ! What do you think ?

The goal of this post is to present you ( very quickly ) how to set up a TFS server (give you the steps) in order to get a continuous build integration environment. We will also talk about continuous deployement. For all the details, please take a look at the bottom of this post for the reference links... To summarize, the continuous integration process will help your team to merge their working copies  of your application code and to discover faster when a build fails. The reasons why a build fail can be multiple: - errors in code - a test fails - code analysis fails... We will take a look at the following points: - Configure the TFS Server - Create a new build definition - Insert tests in your build process - Manage team project's check-in policies - Deal with NuGet packages - Automatically deploy your project with MsDeploy. Setup your TFS 2013 server First you need to have a server that will manage and build your code. Install a TFS server and configu...

Today, I would like to remember you that the Microsoft Band SDK is now available for developers ! You can also find the associated Xamarin component for iOS & Android platforms. Here are the links: Xamarin Microsoft Band component for iOS & Android Microsoft Band SDK download page With this SDK you can access the following band sensors: Accelerometer : Provides X, Y, and Z acceleration in meters per second squared (m/s2) units. Gyroscope Provides X, Y, and Z angular velocity in degrees per second (°/sec) units. Distance : Provides the total distance in centimeters, current speed in centimeters per second (cm/s), current pace in milliseconds per meter (ms/m), and the current pedometer mode (such as walking or running). Heart Rate  Provides the number of beats per minute, also indicates if the heart rate sensor is fully locked onto the wearer’s heart rate. Pedometer  Provides the total number of steps the wearer has taken. Skin Temperature P...