Tag Archives: xamarin

XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox 1.4.3 Released

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Chris C

I’m happy to announce the release of XPlugins.iOS.BEMCheckBox 1.4.3.  The main feature of this release is exposing the DidTapCheckBox event in the underlying BEMCheckBox.  You can find a full list of issues fixed in this release here. The easiest way to … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Fix Illegal Characters in Path Error with TeamCity and RealmDB

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Chris C

When building a Xamarin application one step is to build the Android APK file.  This is a MsBuild step in TeamCity that looks like: This step generates the following error: Notice the “*Undefined*Tools” in the directory path.  To fix this … Continue reading →

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Notes on Fixing Incomplete Bitcode Error in TeamCity Automated Objective-c Builds

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Chris C

Notes I took while trying to fix the Incomplete Bitcode error in submission bug.  Not sure if it’s fixed yet as I haven’t tried submitting an app to the App Store yet.  Hopefully someone else will try it and confirm it’s fixed. … Continue reading →

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Notes: Upgrade NUnit.Xamarin to NUnit 3.8.1

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Chris C

The notes I took when trying to upgrade the NUnit Xamarin project to NUnit 3.8.1.  The reason I did this was to fix issue #87.  When I try to us NUnit Xamarin on another project it fails with the following … Continue reading →

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Today I Learned How to Automate Objective-c Builds in TeamCity

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Chris C

Several months ago I discussed how to manually build an objective-c project so it can be consumed by a Xamarin Binding Project.  In this post I show how to automate the building of the objective-c project.  In my case I need … 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

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Chris C

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 →

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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

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Chris C

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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Today I Learned How to Create a Xamarin iOS Binding for Objective-C Libraries – Part 2 Combining Libraries

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Chris C

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 →

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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

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Chris C

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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Today I Learned How to Handle Local Notifications in Xamarin on Android

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Chris C

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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