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Thank You Liv
After almost a year hard work Liv has reached her goal and been accepted to the Edmonton Police Service (EPS). Needless to say she was a bit excited when she got the call. Unfortunately joining the EPS means Liv no … Continue reading
Do you Still Need to Compress Pictures?
I hope you had a great summer vacation. We sure did and are trying squeeze in a mini-vacation before the summer is officially over after the Labour Day long weekend. Now that your summer vacation is over you want to … Continue reading
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Tagged Compress Pictures, Mini-Compressor
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Looking for Speakers for the Edmonton .NET User Group
Are you passionate about software development and want to share your passion with others? If so then the Edmonton .NET Users Group is looking for you. Specifically as the newly elected Program Director I’m looking for you to speak at one of … Continue reading
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Today I Learned How to Create a Xamarin iOS Binding for Objective-C Libraries – Part 4 The Actual Binding
This is the 4th and final part about incorporating an objective-c library in Xamarin. In my case I’m binding BEMCheckBox. In part 3 we used Sharpie to create a C# interface for the BEMCheckBox. In this post we will show … Continue reading
Posted in Code Examples, Software Development, Today I Learned
Tagged BEMCheckBox, C#, ios, native-binding, objective-c, xamarin
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Today I Learned How to Create a Xamarin iOS Binding for Objective-C Libraries – Part 3 Using Sharpie to Create Binding Interface
This is the 3rd part about using the BEMCheckBox, an Objective-C library, in Xamarin. Part 1 described how to compile the BEMCheckBox library using Xcode. Part 2 showed how to combine the multiple libraries we compiled from Part 1 into … Continue reading
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Tagged BEMCheckBox, C#, ios, native-binding, objective-c, sharpie, xamarin
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Kids Thinking Outside the Box – Favourite Cheese
Transcript of my wife talking to my daughter’s grade 6 friend: Wife: “What is your favourite cheese?” Friend: “Grated!”
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Today I Learned How to Create a Xamarin iOS Binding for Objective-C Libraries – Part 2 Combining Libraries
This is part 2 of creating a iOS Binding for the Objective-C Library BEMCheckBox. In part 1 we compiled the Xcode project into two separate libraries. One for iphones (ARM architecture) and one for iOS simulators (x86/x64 architecture). In this … Continue reading
Posted in Code Examples, Software Development, Today I Learned
Tagged BEMCheckBox, ios, lipo, native-binding, xamarin
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Today I Learned How to Create a Xamarin iOS Binding for Objective-C Libraries – Part 1 Compiling the Objective-C Library
There is no checkbox for Xamarin Forms applications. This is a problem because I wanted a checkbox in a application I’m working on. A switch wasn’t going to cut it. After a bit of research I found that Android had native … Continue reading
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Tagged BEMCheckBox, ios, native-binding, xamarin, xcode
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Today I Learned How to Handle Local Notifications in Xamarin on Android
In my previous example I detailed how to schedule notifications in Xamarin on Android but didn’t show the Xamarin Forms application reacting to that specific notification. Let’s fix that. First override the OnNewIntent method in the MainActivity. We override this method so notifications will … Continue reading
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Tagged .NET, C#, notifications, xamarin, xplugins
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First Beta Release of the Xamarin Notification Plugin (Version 0.3.0-RC2)
The first beta version of the Xamarin Notification Plugin has been released. This plugin allows you to send local notifications easily using Xamarin. You can find the release on NuGet under “SaturdayMP.XPlugin.Notifications“. More details and documentation can be found on … Continue reading
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