How to continuously update a custom map pin location on a map using Xamarin Forms Maps. Wow, we thought this was going to be impossible!! Using Xamarin Forms trying to get our own map pin image on the map was one thing but then getting the location to update without having to clear all the […]
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MVP (Minimum Viable Product) On a daily basis we’re faced with businesses wanting to launch their new app and business idea to get them a return on their investment. Believe it or not there are lots of different styles used to do this and whilst some are increadibly effective, some are almost completely ineffective. The
How much!? This question is often attempted to be answered in blog entries because it is a commonly asked question usually by people wanting an app but not having any idea on the technical implications and therefore costs. As a result it is often the case the cost of building an app is higher than
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When we were tasked with showing a map with a route highlighted on it, we initially went to the Xamarin articles you’ve no doubt come across already. The issue with these was that it didn’t seem to show you where you might get the route coordinates from but just gave some arbirtrary values that they
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Xamarin /Visual Studio Community 2015 / Azure Cloud Its coming together at Microsoft. The ability to create a cross platform app with a backend REST service using the WebAPI of ASP.NET is very quick and extremely powerful. There seems little need for third party off the shelf backend web packages now with the ease in
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Every Mobile App Requires a Backend. Over the last few months we have been hard at work building a Mobile Back End as a Service (MBaaS). Rather than using off the shelf packages we decided to use our in house capabilities to create an ASP.NET MVC & Web API Backend to leverage all the common
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Here’s the information Xamarin announced on 31st March 2016 that it is available for free for everyone using Visual Studio which includes the free versions. https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/ What it means This is huge news for the Xamarin community as well as the wider mobile app developer community who have made decisions about which platform to develop
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The moment we’ve all been waiting for… It’s finally here! Yesterday Microsoft announced a deal made with Xamarin to take over the company. http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/02/24/microsoft-to-acquire-xamarin-and-empower-more-developers-to-build-apps-on-any-device/ Microsoft have been closely working with Xamarin to provide a lean suite of development tools to create cross platform apps on all platforms. What does this mean? Most of the
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Technologies Used We’ve recently built a nice cross platform app using Xamarin Forms deployed to Android and iOS. It is a social networking app available on both Google Play and the Apple AppStore. The app is called bSeen and allows you to discover people who are nearby that are also using the app. You can
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What I’ve learnt about cross platform development in 2015 using Xamarin! If you’ve heard of cross platform development but are unsure on what the practical implications of developing in this environment are, I’d like to be honest about what the reality is and where the difficulties have been whilst using cross platform development tools like
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