Xamarin.Forms Build Errors

This post is for me to track issues (and hopefully solutions) to build errors that occur when trying to build and publish apps. iOS “codesign” exited with code 1 This usually pops up when the certificate or provisioning profile being used to build the app has expired. Check your KeyChain or Apple account and generate […]

Recognising when an item updates within an Observable[Range]Collection

I’m currently working on an app that needs to show the pictures and videos held on the user’s device for them to select from. I came across this great post by @XamBoy that I have used to get the media and save it in an ObservableRangeCollection. NB an ObservableRangeCollection is an object that inherits from […]

Xamarin Forms Converters

I love Converters in Xamarin Forms. They give you a nice, easy way to display something through your XAML based on a value in your binding data. And they are so easy to set up. All converters inherit from IValueConverter and must implement two methods: Convert and ConvertBack.

Xamarin.Forms & a Cheat Flyout

I’ve been brought in to help on a customer app, written in Xamarin Forms. The app is pretty much complete and ready to go live. On the home page, I was asked to add a flyout menu. Normally, a flyout menu would suggest a Master-Detail setup or even the new AppShell, but the app is […]

Xamarin.Forms Shell – Expanding with tabs

In my previous post, I set up a Xamarin Forms Shell project and had the basic Flyout Menu working. Now I want to expand on that. This post will look at how tabs are implemented with Shell. I’ve fleshed out my Flyout Menu items to include the remaining categories for the puzzles, adding the associated […]

Xamarin.Forms Shell – Getting Started

With the release of Xamarin Forms 4.0 and Shell enabling developers to build a navigable app more quickly, I thought I’d take the opportunity to convert one of my apps written in Apache Cordova into Xamarin Forms and see whether Shell would make things simpler. To start with, I create a new Xamarin Forms project […]