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/
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/
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...
https://michaelridland.com/mobile/should-i-use-xamarin-for-mobile-development-yes-yes-yes/
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 sharin...
https://michaelridland.com/mobile/asp-net-mvc-xamarin-mashups/
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 wh...
https://michaelridland.com/mobile/xamarin-hack-day-talks-thanks-retrospective/
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 li...
https://michaelridland.com/mobile/implementing-modernhttpclient-in-mvvmcross/
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 mak...
https://michaelridland.com/mobile/getting-started-with-calabashrubycucumber-on-xamarin-studio/
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 mob...