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Playing around with Apple's Core Image imaging technology, using some simple C# code to perform facial recognition and apply filters to photos.
07/26/2017
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Wally shows you how to use Xamarin.iOS to create a pedometer app for a Fitbit that employs the CoreMotion Framework.
06/20/2017
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Consuming services is something every application needs to do. In this article, Nick demonstrates how to document a REST service using Swagger in order to make it easy to consume from a Universal Windows Application.
06/12/2017
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By Greg Shackles
Learn how Mobile Center helps you easily develop, build, test, distribute, and monitor your mobile apps.
05/09/2017
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Your Xamarin Forms App needs one more little tweak, and that's to make it device-specific, so users don't freak out. Unlike the Apple tweak, the Android tweak takes a bit of work.
02/08/2017
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It's relatively simple to make use of the multi-window mode now that Xamarin supports it. Here's how.
12/14/2016
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Last time, I created the app. This time, I take care of a few annoying but important issues with it, especially in the area of the user's experience with application connectivity.
12/01/2016
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With Apple's update to its phone OS, we look at the support that Xamarin has for it by building a simple speech app.
11/07/2016
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The goal of one tool for every platform isn't quite a reality yet, but you can get close. Here's what you can accomplish so far with Xamarin tools.
09/20/2016
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By Greg Shackles
Learn how Xamarin.Forms Behaviors and Effects make it easy to customize your apps in ways you can reuse them across all of your apps.
08/03/2016
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The Universal Windows Platform comes with rich media capabilities. In this article Nick explores how to customize and extend the media playback experience using the Player Framework.
07/27/2016
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Developers will always look to customize everything, and keyboards aren't out of bounds. Here's how to customize the iOS keyboard that pops up in your mobile apps to address any shortcomings.
05/18/2016
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Now that you know how to communicate with the Band apps, here's another twist. Let's get interactive.
05/12/2016
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By Greg Shackles
Add pressure-based interactions in your apps in just a few minutes.
04/27/2016
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Here's a nifty tool that can help you get to the heart of issues in your mobile apps that aren't easy to track down.
03/16/2016
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The Microsoft Band is one of the most sophisticated fitness and health trackers available today. In this article, Nick walks through building a Windows Phone app that can communicate with it.
03/01/2016
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Pictures are worth a thousand words, and some can be storage-hungry, which can be bad for mobile apps and sites. Here's a trick for slimming them down.
02/18/2016
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One of the hardest challenges of mobile development is how to minimize the cost of building the same application for multiple platforms. Nick shows how to use Xamarin.Forms to develop a cross-platform application that also targets the Universal Windows Platform.
02/03/2016
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Like a mobile force, Xamarin 4 awakens. So upgrade now, especially if you're a Visual Studio developer and building apps for iOS.
01/11/2016
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With the Universal Windows Platform, developers can target a wide variety of devices with a single application, but it comes with performance ramifications. We look at ways to make those apps more efficient and highly performant.
01/08/2016
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By Greg Shackles
Learn to measure the performance of your apps and ensure a great UX.
12/18/2015
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Application code needs to raise events and respond to them. The MessagingCenter makes this whole process much simpler than standard .NET events.
12/10/2015
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With the Universal Windows Platform, you can now build apps that truly interact with the new digital assistant for Windows. In this article, Nick Randolph walks through using Cortana to launch and interact with your application.
12/01/2015
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A high-level look at some of the more interesting features of the newest Apple mobile OS that can trip up C# developers making apps for it.
11/19/2015
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An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript.
10/21/2015