Android – InternetException

February 25, 2017February 23, 2020

Automatic scrolling to edited text box in Xamarin Android.

Important note: this should work well with newer version of Xamarin (2.3.3). If you cannot update for some reason this article will explain workaround.

Introduction

In previous article I explained how to detect show and hide events of software keyboard in Xamarin Android. I did it in my project because of the fact that some of text boxes was hidden by software keyboard that suppose to edit contents of those text boxes. In this article I will explain how to work around this issue in some older versions of Xamarin. Continue reading “Automatic scrolling to edited text box in Xamarin Android.”

February 3, 2017February 23, 2020

Detecting software keyboard events in Xamarin Android

Introduction

It is quite strange that you can’t easily detect if software keyboard is visible or not on Android. Because of that, it is also complicated thing to do in Xamarin. Continue reading “Detecting software keyboard events in Xamarin Android”

January 30, 2017February 23, 2020

Xamarin Android Services Pattern on GPS example

Introduction

In Xamarin if you want to use many Android native service/mechanism you have to implement it in Activity class. Or at least that is how Xamarin documentation wants you to do it. Continue reading “Xamarin Android Services Pattern on GPS example”

December 10, 2016February 23, 2020

Xamarin with TinyIoC

Introduction

This article is builds on topics and solutions introduces in ViewFactory for Xamarin application and Xamarin Master-Detail Page articles. It shows method for easier navigation and use of services via IoC in Xamarin application.
Knowledge from previous examples is not necessary, but makes this article bit easier to understand. Continue reading “Xamarin with TinyIoC”

July 9, 2016February 23, 2020

ViewFactory for Xamarin application

First things first – Why?

First of all I do not like how creating of views and navigation works in Xamarin.

There is much boilerplate needed to just navigate from one page to another.

Typically like in Xamarin documentation we have to obtain INavigation interface instance, create instance of a new page, create instance of view model and all dependencies it requires.

When you page do not require view model things are real easy and Xamarin sample is just enough. Continue reading “ViewFactory for Xamarin application”