A Better Way To Share Image Assets In Xamarin Forms
I’ve just published the fifth installment of my Calcium for Xamarin.Forms series. In this article you see how to share and consume image files between projects in a unified manner. You see how to employ a T4 template to copy image files from a shared project into iOS and Android resources directories; to add them to your iOS and Android projects; and to set the Build Action of the images. Finally, you see how a...
Apps Sold In The Eu Set To Receive Tax Hike
Tax rates for digital goods in the EU, which includes apps and in-app purchases, are set to rise significantly on 1 January 2015. This will affect the revenue of many indie developers. If you’re an app publisher, you may want to look at adjusting your pricing. The table below shows the new VAT rates that will come in to effect on January 1st 2015. EU Country VAT rate before 1/1/2015 VAT rate after 1/1/2015 EU Country VAT rate before 1/1/2015...
Creating A Cross Platform Application Bar For Xamarin Forms With Calcium
I’ve just published the fourth installment of my Calcium for Xamarin.Forms series. In this article you look at defining a custom AppBar in XAML; binding it to collections of command objects and at directly binding AppBar items to viewmodel properties. You see how to employ platform specific rendering to display an AppBar on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. You learn how the Calcium AppBar is multi-page aware and can be placed within multiple pages hosted...
Building Localizable Cross Platform Apps With Xamarin Forms And Calcium
In this third part of the series you see how to use the same .resx files across all three platforms: Windows Phone, iOS, and Android. You see how to link a .resx file correctly into your Xamarin.iOS project. You learn how to set up T4 templates and link to provided T4 include files to generate Android friendly resources. Finally, you see how to use the x:Static markup extension to consume your localized resources from XAML....
Using Mvvm To Create Tabbed Interfaces With Calcium For Xamarin Forms
In this second part of my Calcium for Xamarin Forms series you look you see how to extend beyond current Xamarin Forms API capabilities
to create a tabbed page or carousel page by binding to a collection of ViewModels.
You see how to implement a quasi-data-template selector to materialize viewmodels using MVVM.
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