Filling text with images seems like an easy thing to do with tools like Photoshop, but can be a tedious task when developing it for mobile apps. I wanted to see if this was possible and got it working using the Experimental Xamarin.Forms Shapes. Read the steps below to learn how to fill text with images in Xamarin.Forms, or dive directly in the demo code on Github. The demo that I created is fully inspired by some retro games, can you name them all? I’ll give you a hint: they were part of t...| Marcofolio.net
Xamarin recently added new functionality for developers to build mobile apps: Xamarin.Forms Shapes. As the name suggest, it allows developers to create shapes without being restricted to rectangles or ellipses. At this time, this power is only unleashed when setting the “Shapes_Experimental“-flag but it has some great potential. I wanted to build something using Shapes and went looking for some design inspiration. Luckily, an old friend of mine helped me out without knowing it! The design...| Marcofolio.net
If you’re trying to create automated tests for your Xamarin app, you must have stumbled across Xamarin.UITest. It’s a great way to bring the quality of your application to the next level. Just make sure to apply the best practices when using Xamarin.UITest (especially the Page Object Pattern) otherwise your code can get messy really fast. But when everything is set up properly, you can automatically test your application through the UI on over 1000 devices using Visual Studio App Center! ...| Marcofolio.net
My thoughts about rebranding Xamarin.Forms to Maui and making it part of .NET 6| Marcofolio.net
One of the things I really like about web development, is the usage of the background-position CSS property. It allows you to move a background image around within its container. jFancyTile: A jQuery tile shifting image viewer plugin, realies heavily on this technique. Sadly, Xamarin doesn’t have a property like CSS that we can use out-of-the-box to recreate that effect. But, with some help of FFImageLoading, we can get the same results. In particular, the CropTransformation can crop away p...| Marcofolio.net
The Xamarin Security Scanner finds well known security vulnerabilities by analyzing the source code of your Xamarin application.| Marcofolio.net
A while ago, I shared my presentation called “Turn specs into high quality apps” presented at the DevDayBE-conference. I’ve upgraded my talk with a great story as well as improved the overall presentation and held it at NDC Oslo. Today, I want to share the recording of that presentation. I’ve written already several articles here about ATDD/BDD with Specflow and Xamarin. During the presentation we’ll discuss the Three Amigo’s, how specifications are written using Gherkin and can b...| Marcofolio.net
CocosSharp is a library for building 2D games using C# and F#. It is a .NET port of the popular Cocos2D engine. I wanted to play around with this library for a while and came up with a very simple demo to get a basic understanding of it. This demo shows how to create a Particle follower. Simply drag your finger across the screen and a particle explosion will occur! You can view the source on Github if you directly want to dive into the code. Otherwise, read on and learn how to build a particl...| Marcofolio.net
Get a first look at Xamarin.Essentials, a single library to access native platform features for your cross-platform Xamarin application to have access to the accelerometer, camera, geolocation, gyroscope and more.| Marcofolio.net
Watch my TEQnation presentation on Green Software Development. Learn how to make your software more sustainable!| Marcofolio.net