When chatting with some dev about the reactivity of Flutter he made the great statement Flutter is REACTive and not reactive in the sense we know from Reactive Extensions (Rx).

Coming from Xamarin and ReactiveUI this somewhat disappointed me because … Read the more... “Making Flutter more Reactive”

In this post I will have a closer look at Google’s new mobile framework Flutter and compare it to my previous experience with Xamarin forms. This is not a tutorial but more an overview to get you started

A typical

Disclaimer: Post describes Xaml Pages used in Xamarin Forms

If you are like me the first time when confronted with a Xaml page they look sort of really alien to an old school programmer who has never did dirty web … Read the more... “The secret life of a Xaml Page”

The traditional Binding

When first making contact with ListViews in an Xamarin Forms MVVM design you usually publish an ObservableCollection as a property of the ViewModel of your Page, bind the ItemSource of the ListView to it and then bind … Read the more... “Advanced ListView Bindings”

Virtualised collection views like ListView or CarouselView are great as they generate their views on the fly based on a DataTemplate. The problem is they need a collection that contains all elements that you want to display. Sometimes this … Read the more... “Virtual ObservableCollection”

Often we need to distribute some files together with our App like a prepopulated database, settings files, image etc. To do this there are basically three methods:

Embedded Resoures

• Quite good for Images like icons
• read only
• not directly accessable