Rotate everything with SkiaSharp and Xamarin
In this post, I’m going to explain object rotation from the mathematical point of view and demonstrate different methods of how to draw rotated objects in SkiaSharp.
Building a Floating Label Entry with Xamarin.Forms
The Float Label Pattern was introduced as a UI concept back in 2013 by Matt (@mds). Less than a year later it became a part of the “Material” design guidelines. There are a number of ways to implement floating labels in a Xarmarin Forms project – starting from building it from scratch or using wrappers […]
Gradient Label Control in Xamarin.Forms
As Xamarin.Forms developers we often face cases when controls are not customizable enough to meet our requirements. Luckily for us, the Xamarin team has foreseen these needs and offered a way of how the rendering process can be overridden to customize the appearance and behavior of Xamarin.Forms controls on each platform. Here I am going […]
Simple way to use icon fonts in Xamarin Forms projects
Almost all apps use some kind of graphic icons to make the UI more attractive and easy to use. Here I will demonstrate a quick way of adding icon fonts in Xamarin applications.
Vision Framework for Face Landmarks detection using Xamarin.iOS
Mobile devices are getting better and better at solving sophisticated tasks. Not only because of better hardware, but also due to modern trends towards AI – such tasks as face detection, barcode recognition, rectangle detection, text recognition, etc. are now supported on the operating system level making it really simple to solve them in your app. […]
Expandable UITableView with Xamarin iOS
Expandable UITableViewCells with variable height, beautiful animations and no 3rd party libraries – all with just a few lines of code. Interested? Let me show you how I got all of these. Let’s start by taking a look at the final result: There are four animations here to get this effect done. When users tap […]
Gradient backgrounds in Xamarin iOS
Did you notice that graphic designers love gradients? It was a trend in mobile designs that started in 2017 and now it’s getting even more popular. Let me share a few useful code snippets that will help you to make awesome looking iOS applications with Xamarin. First the gradient itself. We’re going to use a […]
Android App Shortcuts in Xamarin
Great mobile apps and luxury cars are similar, in that a lot of attention is paid to even the smallest details. Since Android version 7.1 (API 25) there is a new feature that lets users get to a specific screen or an action right from the home screen — Shortcuts. Although the feature has been […]