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…
sockets-for-pcl
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: …
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Service discovery for mobile apps
In a recent post I talked about sockethelpers and the kinds of problem it aims to help with. Service discovery is the first aspect of the library I've been working on, and that's the topic of this post. The code discussed here is still very alpha - b…
sockets-for-pcl
sockethelpers-for-pcl: Making socket tasks easy that should be
When I first started thinking about the API design for sockets-for-pcl, I made the decision build a minimally functional, unopinionated and lightweight wrapper over the existing platform implementations - no extra features. Part of the reason was to …
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CocosSharp helper methods for the "Give us the Gist of it!" contest
Xamarin recently ran a "Give us the Gist of it!" contest, encouraging developers to share snippets of code they found useful in day to day Xamarin work. From the valid entries, five were randomly chosen as winners, and yours truly happened to be one …
sockets-for-pcl
Improvements to sockets-for-pcl
I've been making steady improvements to my sockets-for-pcl library over the last month. There are a number of bugfixes, as detailed in the full changelog. Most of those bugs I've found while building out the upcoming sockethelpers project. However, t…
sockets-for-pcl
sockets-for-pcl: TCP and UDP sockets from the comfort of your PCL
Over Christmas last year, Xamarin ran a Holiday Plugin Contest encouraging the development of open source cross-platform libraries for Xamarin iOS, Android and Windows Phone/Store. The contest was enough of a motivation to look seriously at a problem…
CocosSharp
Creating a basic game in CocosSharp (Part 3)
In the previous post, we looked at what was involved in getting the shock surprise intro scene for Meetup Pop up and running. In the process, we saw a bunch of the CocosSharp classes in use, including sprites, nodes, actions and transitions. In this …