Charlin's Blog
A quick tour flow allows you to understand what’s an application about and how it works before using it. The most common way is by creating an Onboarding screen (Which is an independent screen that shows some instructive images on how to use the application), but that’s not the only way to do this. In […]
A time ago Steven Thewissen created a great plugin called StateSquid which allowed displaying a specific view when a page is in a specific state. It has evolved and now it’s part of the Xamarin Community Toolkit. In this article, I’m going to show you how to use and integrate it to load data into […]
On February 21, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in a Podcast where we talked about improving the UX of Xamarin Forms Apps by covering topics related to different UX areas such as Splash, Login/Register Forms, Profile/Contacts, Loading, Internet Connection, and General tips. This is an online Podcast called DevTalk organized by Kerry W. Lothrop. […]
A guard clause, is a check of integrity preconditions used to avoid errors during execution. It helps you to simplify code by removing useless nested branching conditions and returning meaningful errors. To achieve it in .NET you can do it using a library or writing your own defensive code, in this article I’ll show you […]
Loading data is one of the most common tasks that we do in a mobile application. It can also be the thing that bothers our users the most when using it due to the time they must wait to obtain the desired result, that’s why we need to provide the best user experience possible to […]
On December 11th, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in the MVP Conf Latam by giving a talk on Working State Machines in .NET, we covered topics on how to start, how to integrate it in a .NET Project, advances of using it, etc. Slides here: State machine in .NET Place: Online Language: Spanish Date: Dec […]
On November 12th, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in the DevFest Santo Domingo 2021 by giving a talk on Working State Machines in .NET (Trabajando con máquinas de estados en.NET), we covered topics on how to start, how to integrate it in a .NET Project, advances of using it, etc. Slides here: Trabajando con […]
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 to create a custom control (if you want to learn about that you can read this great article by […]
On October 1st, Rendy Del Rosario and I participated in the XamarinExpertDay by giving a talk on how to improve the UX of Xamarin Forms Apps, we covered topics related to different UX areas such as Splash, Login/Register Forms, Profile/Contacts, Loading, Internet Connection, and General. Slides here: Improving the ux of our xamarin forms apps […]
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 our application. In this article, I’m NOT going to show you how to create a custom control (if […]