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Building cross-platform Xamarin.Forms apps in VSTS

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
Monu Bambroo
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Jim Blizzard shows how to navigate past some of the issues when setting up VSTS builds for a multi-project Xamarin.Forms solution. The other day I wanted to create a DevOps CI / CD pipeline for a simple Xamarin.Forms app that I’d created. The Visual Studio solution contains ...

Global resources in Xamarin Forms! No App.xaml? Create one!

July 23, 2016 Jul 23, 2016 07/23/16
Monu Bambroo
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Joe Healy shows us how to create global resources in Xamarin Forms. Xaml developers moving to Xamarin Forms are hoping to take some of their good habits from the Windows (WPF/Silverlight/UWP) dev world with them (probably a few of their bad ones as well but we don’t want to talk...

Xamarin Forms: Avoiding data binding in ListViews

July 18, 2016 Jul 18, 2016 07/18/16
Monu Bambroo
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Bill Reiss shows us how to avoid data binding in List Views for Xamarin Forms. This post was inspired by Jason Smith’s Evolve session discussing performance in Xamarin Forms. Jason gives a lot of great information and I highly recommend watching the video. At one point he ...

Maximize code on the Mobile Platform of your choice

April 22, 2016 Apr 22, 2016 04/22/16
Developer Support
In this blog post, Application Development Managers, Derrick Sharpe and Justin Wendlandt, highlight the many options to maximize development productivity across a range of mobile platforms, including Windows 10, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, and more. (image) Contrary to popular belief, the Windows Phone application development landscape is ...

Leveraging Native UI in Apache Cordova Apps Using Project Ace

February 18, 2016 Feb 18, 2016 02/18/16
Pam Lahoud
This article comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Wael Kdouh. When it comes to Cross Platform Mobile Development there are two options that stand out today. The first option is Xamarin which allows users to use C# and XAML to develop once and deploy everywhere natively. The second option is Apache Cordova which allows users to use ...

How to choose the Mobile Strategy that best suits your company

March 24, 2015 Mar 24, 2015 03/24/15
Pam Lahoud
A lot of companies that are trying to adapt to the proliferation of mobile devices targeting different platforms have the following question on their mind today: What is the Mobile Strategy that best suits my company?  This post by Premier Developer Consultant Wael Kdouh outlines some of the things to consider when choosing the strategy that ...