Reactive Properties in Xamarin Forms

23rd of May, 2019 / Pulkit Sethi / No Comments

In this post, we will look at using Xamarin Forms in a more reactive manner, which will give more control over validation and synchronous UI updates, with potential to easily add custom animations.

The primary components for a Xamarin Forms mobile app are view models, presenters, services, repositories, business layers, DTOs etc. All interaction with a mobile app can be thought of as a series of asynchronous events handled by the view model. All interactions with the underlying layer, i.e… [Keep reading] “Reactive Properties in Xamarin Forms”

ViewModel-first approach in Xamarin forms

15th of May, 2018 / Pulkit Sethi / No Comments

There are primarily 3 patterns to choose when developing mobile applications. They are MVC, MVVM and MVP. For a detailed discussion about them check Xamarin application architecture.
The focus of this post will be around MVVM pattern. One of the earliest and most stable MVVM libraries for Xamarin has been the MVVM Cross library Like most libraries, this also followed a ViewModel-first approach. What this means, that the focus of the developer is always on the ViewModel and the data in the application.… [Keep reading] “ViewModel-first approach in Xamarin forms”

Versioning of Android app (Dev, Stage, and Prod) using same code base – Xamarin Forms

28th of April, 2018 / Divikiran Ravela / No Comments

We will be continuing our journey into App versioning, this time for Android. Similar to iOS, in Android, we have to create Compiler symbols too. For those who have missed iOS versioning blog, click on below is the link.
Versioning of iOS app (Dev, Stage, and Prod) using same code base – Xamarin Forms

Set different configurations

Similar to iOS, setup all the required configurations as shown below,

Dev

Staging

Prod

Compiler symbols options

Double-clicking on Android project should prompt with Project Options, go to compiler tab under Build section.… [Keep reading] “Versioning of Android app (Dev, Stage, and Prod) using same code base – Xamarin Forms”

Versioning of iOS app (Dev, Stage, and Prod) using same code base – Xamarin Forms

27th of April, 2018 / Divikiran Ravela / 1 Comment

App versioning based on same code base is the favorite feature of most of the clients I worked for various reasons. Usually, this feature is requested to cater App to the different set of departments or support multi-tenancy that client want to support. When creating a complex app, there are n-number of teams working together to build it, which includes dev testers, beta testers, or even a client who wants to demo a product before actually purchasing it.… [Keep reading] “Versioning of iOS app (Dev, Stage, and Prod) using same code base – Xamarin Forms”

Xamarin Forms – App Center: Show BuildID on iOS App

3rd of January, 2018 / Divikiran Ravela / No Comments

Introduction

App center helps us to connect support git repositories (i.e GitHub, Bitbucket or VSTS) and build the app for us either on every code commit or manually. It also sends notifications to users that are registered to it. It will also help us to run tests on the actual device and runs any unit tests in the project.

iOS and Android

App Center can be set up to build individual platforms projects.

Scenario:

Required to show BuildID on iOS APP during the development phase, as shown below.… [Keep reading] “Xamarin Forms – App Center: Show BuildID on iOS App”