Xamarin Essentials is a great recent initiative from the Xamarin team to provide an endorsed, comprehensive cross-platform set of APIs in a single package (read more about it on the docs page). One interesting aspect of the library is the lack of int…
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Getting the VSTS Hosted Mac Agent to restore from your custom NuGet sources
While preparing for my recent talk on Visual Studio App Center, I realised that there were a couple of limitations in the current offering that would make it difficult to implement an upcoming requirement in one of my projects. Knowing that VSTS rece…
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Introduction to Visual Studio App Center
Visual Studio App Center is Microsoft's integrated app lifecyle automation platform, recently promoted to GA. At the Queensland C# Mobile Developers meetup group's first event for 2018, I gave a talk on the service, including a broad overview of the …
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Introduction to UrhoSharp
UrhoSharp is a cross-platform 3D application and game engine for Xamarin platforms. At the Queensland C# Mobile Developers meetup group's October event, I gave a talk on the engine, including broad overview of the library, core concepts and a few dem…
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Rx-friendly NSNotificationCenter usage on Xamarin.iOS
During the course of building an iOS app, at some point you're likely to need to hook into the NSNotificationCenter functionality. Not to be confused with the consumer-side Notification Center in iOS, it provides a pub/sub-like mechanism that you can…
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Using Visual Studio's dark theme syntax highlighting in Xamarin Studio
As a Xamarin developer, after hearing today that Microsoft is going to acquire Xamarin, you might be wondering what you can do to prepare yourself for the incoming assimilation*. Speculation abounds as to what will come out of all this, but it seems …
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Allowing UIWebView to accept self-signed certificates
Transport-level security requirements for iOS have undergone significant changes recently. Indeed, unconfirmed statistics suggest that the introduction of App Transport Security in iOS 9 was responsible for doubling the size of the StackOverflow data…
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So Valuable Right Now
Finally, a genuine use for my 'almost-famous' tag! I am honoured to be able to announce that I have been awarded MVP status for Xamarin. The award is for "outstanding independent community leaders who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to hel…
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Starting out right with Xamarin
At the Queensland C# Mobile Developers meetup group's June event, I gave a presentation entitled 'Starting out right with Xamarin'. It's a light-hearted but informative overview of things to keep in mind when beginning to work with Xamarin, including…
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sockethelpers-for-pcl alpha on NuGet
The first version of the Socket Helpers library is now on NuGet. It is alpha code and there is always the possibility of drastic breaking changes in the future. Still, if you'd like to try it out, there are a few bits and pieces included so far: …