Exploring Grial UI Kit in Xamarin Forms
Grial UI Kit provides XAML templates, custom controls, helpers and resources that accelerate the creation of Xamarin.Forms apps. In this article, I’ll be exploring the Grial UI Kit, talking about how...
View ArticleSimple Two Cards Transition Control in Xamarin Forms
I recently developed a simple control to transition between two cards using an overlay animation in Xamarin Forms. In this post, I want to share the result and also explain how I achieved each of my...
View ArticleScratch View in Xamarin Forms
Recently I was exploring a few random applications and found an interesting behavior that was about scratching an image and revealing the result while doing it. So I was curious about how to do that...
View ArticleStop doing IsVisible=“true/false” to Show/Hide Views in RunTime in Xamarin Forms
When developing UI a common use case is to hide/show a View according to a certain condition, when thinking on how to do this the first thing that comes to mind is to add an IsVisible property and...
View ArticleSimplifying Bindable Properties with Type Converters in Xamarin Forms
A Type Converter allows you to convert values from a type to a different type, this is helpful when creating bindable properties in Xamarin Forms because it saves you a lot of time and validation...
View ArticleClearable Time Picker in Xamarin Forms
A time ago I did an article on how to create a Clearable Date Picker, recently someone asked me to do the same but with a Time Picker. So why not? In this article, I’m going to show you how to create...
View ArticleExpandable Paragraph Control in Xamarin Forms
A time ago I had a requirement about an expendable paragraph control to support show/hide text when clicking into a button, that way the text is not fully displayed on the screen, and we can save...
View ArticleScroll Reveal in Xamarin Forms
A few weeks ago, I got this request from Zaw Htut via Twitter, on how to do a Scroll Reveal using a ListView in Xamarin Forms. In this article, I will show you how to do it step by step. Let’s...
View ArticleTips and Ticks when creating a Custom Control in Xamarin Forms. Part. 1
Creating a custom control is a common thing to do when developing a Xamarin Forms application. In many cases, the main purpose of creating one is to have a reusable control that we can use across all...
View ArticleTips and Ticks when creating a Custom Control in Xamarin Forms. Part. 2
In the first part of this article, I showed different tips when creating a custom control, in this part I’ll be covering some additional tips. As in the previous article, I’m NOT going to show you how...
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