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 stuff before. After reading some articles about using them you finally grasp what you can […]

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 to the items in´the collection in your Datatemplate. Like this: [ImplementPropertyChanged] //I use Fody here […]

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 is not feasible because the collection would be too big or it would take too long […]

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 for file IO Can be accessed from PCL Files App has to be rebuilt https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/working-with/files/#Loading_Files_Embedded_as_Resources […]