In one project I was working on, a page needs to show a short horizontal and scrollable list of items (something like the Apple App Store app). Xamarin.Forms offers the ability to use a ScrollView control to show a list of items horizontally but, ...
Why software error or anomaly is called “bug”?
One of the first big calculator, the Mark II, suddenly stopped to work during one night. Engineers, as they tried the problem, they found a moth (bug) trapped in a relay.
This was the “first case of...
If you want to simulate the multitouch with the Xamarin Android Player, testing – for example – pinch and zoom feature, simply press ALT key + left mouse button on the emulator. Check what happens:
Enjoy!
This is the first post about the new features included in Xamarin.Forms 2.0, released with Xamarin 4 a week ago.
In the previous versions of Xamarin.Forms when you made some mistakes in XAML, like a wrong property or a wrong value, you can’t catc...
Last friday I’ve made a talk about Xamarin in Catania, Sicily, during the EtnaDev 2015 event. I can say that was really fun to take part of that and was really great to meet the OrangeDotNet user group members. They are really amazing!
So, great ...
In my talks, speaking about Xamarin.Forms, the most common question is: “Wonderful technology! But … when Xamarin.Forms is the preferred choice? Why (and when) I should use it instead of native apps?”
My answer: “It depends!”
Xamarin.Forms is re...
For the six year in a row I was awarded as Microsoft MVP. Thanks to all the italian communities and, obviously, thanks to the DotNetSide community.
And now, we are ready for the next year!
Just after the Microsoft announcement, Xamarin has released its first preview for iOS and Android developers. To start using the SDK you can download it from the Xamarin Component Store.
Check out documentation and samples here.
Xamarin announce...
The Italian Community Days is, since 2006, the most important event organized by all the .NET italian communities. 3 Days of sessions, labs, workshop, 5 parallels tracks, a lot of speaker, a lot of people, a great event!
For the first time in Ita...
Sparrow is one of the most currently used framework to develop games for iOS and this book is absolutely a nice guide to start with it. Sparrow is an easy-to-use framework and is intended for 2D games and multimedia applications with built-in su...
