Html5 vs Native
For the past two years I’ve been in charge of the development of the mobile version of the Jim2 Business Engine at Happen Business. I wanted to share some experiences we’ve had with going mobile....
View ArticleGetting started with Calabash on Xamarin Studio
Here’s a little setup guide to using Calabash with Xamarin Studio on Mac. In a terminal, go to your Xamarin Studio Solution Directory cd path-to-solution Install calabash-cucumber gem (this make take...
View ArticleImplementing ModernHttpClient in MvvmCross
Earlier this week Paul Betts started a new open source project called ModernHttpClient which is a Xamarin wrapper around two native libs. https://github.com/paulcbetts/ModernHttpClient “This library...
View ArticleXamarin Hack Day Talks, Thanks and Retrospective
In June this year I put together a Xamarin hack day(with some amazing help by SSW) in Sydney. The idea of the Hack Day was to get Sydney’s most experienced Xamarin professionals and people who want to...
View ArticleUltimate guide to ASP.NET MVC and Xamarin.Forms Mashups
In this blog I show you how to take an asp.net application and then code share both Razor Views and Business logic with a Xamarin.Forms native application. This integration will allow full sharing...
View ArticleShould I use Xamarin for Mobile Development? YES you should!
Should I use Xamarin for Mobile Development? – This a very important question and a question that can cost you alot of time and money if you get it wrong. After wasting many months of my time playing...
View ArticleBeautiful Xamarin – Facebook Clone in Xamarin.Forms
I’ve actually had this project around since this start of the year but I never blogged it. I did this code for my speaking session at Microsoft Ignite in Australia. Warning – This code is a playground...
View ArticleIntroduction to Augmented Reality with ARKit
In this post we’re going to dive into ARKit, we’ll find out what it is and get started with building our first augmented reality experience in ARKit. ARKit is Apple’s toolkit for building augmented...
View ArticleEasy real-time, event-driven and serverless with Azure
One of the most exciting parts of modern cloud platforms is serverless and the event driven architectures you can build with it. The reason that it’s so exciting is because it’s a double win, not only...
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