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”
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”
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”
Genereting proxies during runtime using Reflection.Emit
Reflection.Emit is very powerful tool. It creates IL code and since C# is converted into IL too, we have the same functionality as in C# and even more. It is very powerful and at the same time very complicated. Because of that it is worth to discuss how and for what it should be used. One idea is to create dynamic code with automatic implementations of interfaces – proxy types.
Continue reading “Genereting proxies during runtime using Reflection.Emit”
Faster than Reflection: Delegates. Part 3.
This is third article in series, that explains how to create delegates for public and non-public members of public, non-public or not known in compile-time types. If you are not familiar with previous articles and looking for detailed explanation of how delegates works, how they are created and why, I strongly encourage you to read first two. If you are just looking for a way to create delegates for methods or constructors it is not necessary.
Code with new features and with bug fixes is available on GitHub and as Nuget package. Continue reading “Faster than Reflection: Delegates. Part 3.”