React Native: Using Native Modules for Location Services

About Location Services Location-based services are a common utility in mobile apps. Typical use cases range anywhere from serving ads relevant to a certain location, to presenting special content at specific places, to out-right navigational aid. If you should find that your own react native app would benefit from location services, there are a few … Continue reading React Native: Using Native Modules for Location Services

Building a “Next Entry” Effect for iOS and Android in Xamarin.Forms

Update June 26th: Eagle eyed commenter @Brandon Minnick pointed out that ReturnType and ReturnCommand are now supported properties in Xamarin.Forms 3.1 (Documentation). You can find his comprehensive sample here or an amended sample below. https://gist.github.com/JoeM-RP/b346109a46238866b1123f3ae9e2a37e And the code behind: https://gist.github.com/JoeM-RP/80be7f12add87d46cbaa3cb14e30d432 Of course, if you are using an older version of Xamarin.Forms or just want to do … Continue reading Building a “Next Entry” Effect for iOS and Android in Xamarin.Forms

XamaWIN – Cross-Platform Grouped Radio Buttons in Xamarin.Forms

Xamawin • zam-ah win | noun A quick, easy to implement enhancement for a Xamarin App that improves performance, appearance, or functionality Update September 2020: Radio Buttons are now included as a standard Xamarin.Forms control. You can read the documentation on using them here. For older versions of Xamarin.Forms, find my original post below: While I generally … Continue reading XamaWIN – Cross-Platform Grouped Radio Buttons in Xamarin.Forms

DevOps: Wireless Debugging for iOS and tvOS

As if you needed another reason to keep Visual Studio for Mac up to date, the latest version released a week ago today (Release Notes) bears an intriguing line item: If you've been playing around in the beta channel, or are familiar with developing in XCode, this comes as no surprise. In fact, wireless debugging … Continue reading DevOps: Wireless Debugging for iOS and tvOS