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Making Flutter more Reactive

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”

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Thomas Burkhart | 17 Comments

Flutter – The new kid on the block

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

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Posted on March 29, 2018 by Thomas Burkhart | 9 Comments

The Xamarin Project Mystery

In this post I will try to clear up some missconceptions about the Xamarin Forms project structure, have a closer look at the differences between PCL and Shared Projects and explain some tricks that you can do with both of … Read the more... “The Xamarin Project Mystery”

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Thomas Burkhart | Tagged Xamarin.Forms | Leave a comment

The secret life of a Xaml Page

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”

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Thomas Burkhart | 2 Comments

Advanced ListView Bindings

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”

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Thomas Burkhart | 6 Comments

Virtual ObservableCollection

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”

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Thomas Burkhart | Leave a comment

How to Distribute Files with your App

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
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Posted on September 8, 2016 by Thomas Burkhart | Leave a comment

What you always wanted to know about Gorilla Player….

One of the most requested features of Xamarin Forms is a visual Xaml Editor. Sure, it would be nice, but it would never show you how your App will look on different devices. So I think the way that the … Read the more... “What you always wanted to know about Gorilla Player….”

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Thomas Burkhart | Tagged Xamarin.Forms, Xaml | Leave a comment

Hello world!

Hi,

after long thoughts I decided to start a blog too. My I have two goals with this blog.

  1. Share experiences that I made while developing, perhaps saving others time making not the same mistakes
  2. Write up information that I
… Read the more... “Hello world!”
Posted on April 13, 2016 by Thomas Burkhart | Leave a comment
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