In my Xamarin UI July I’ve decided on a UI that was not only visually appealing but also one that had a little more complexity than you normally see in a Xamarin.Forms apps. I recently attende...
https://michaelridland.com/xamarin/airnzclone-awesome-animation-tricks-in-xamarin-forms/
Too many of you this might seen like common knowledge because that’s what I thought, I thought this would be in every Xamarin/.NET developers bag of tricks. I’ve been surprised to discover ...
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,...
https://michaelridland.com/mobile/easy-real-time-event-driven-and-serverless-with-azure/
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 a...
https://michaelridland.com/mobile/introduction-to-augmented-reality-with-arkit/
At XAM Consulting (Xamarin Developers) our developers love to stay on top of the current trends in all aspects of software and mobile development. Last week we had a slack conversation geeking ou...
https://michaelridland.com/xamarin/xams-favourite-new-c-features/
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...
https://michaelridland.com/mobile/beautiful-xamarin-facebook-clone-in-xamarin-forms/
Normally I like to write about deep technical topics but CX (Customer Experience) is another one of my passions. I’m passionate about CX because I’ve had so many bad experiences with big bra...
https://michaelridland.com/xamarin/why-developers-should-care-about-cx/
A DoD or Definition of Done is a software development term, the term is common in many agile teams and it has origins in SCRUM. The basic idea is that a team has a shared understanding of what de...
https://michaelridland.com/xamarin/the-definition-of-done-dod-for-xamarin-developers/
In this video I chat with Martijn van Dijk about Xamarin Plugins and a little bit of .net standard. It was filmed at the Xamarin Dev Days in Singapore 2016, sorry it’s taken a while to upload...
If you’re a Xamarin.Forms developer, it’s likely you already know about the two great talks that Jason Smith did at Evolve this year (2016). Both of the talks were on performance in Xamarin.F...
https://michaelridland.com/xamarin/hacking-the-xamarin-forms-layout-system-for-fun-and-profit/