Category: Xamarin

Xamarin
2020.09.01.

Xamarin.Android – Bottom Bubble TabBar

Suppose we use an Activity and swap Fragments within the Activity. Within Acitvity, use RelativeLayout for External Layout and we will place it at the bottom, centering our menu. Set the Bottom menu as rounded View at: android:background=”@xml/bottom_menu” In the first rectangle I set a little shadow of the menu, but it is not necessary, if you dont want shadow just use this code in […]

Xamarin
2020.09.01.

Xamarin.Android – Rounded corner of View

Android don’t have rounded corner property, so we have to define a shape in an xml and we have to set this xml as a background of a View. Let’s define our rounded corner in the Resource/drawable folder: rounded.xml. If we want a different radius or different color, just change the android:radius or android:color property. Next, we have to set this as a background of […]

Xamarin
2020.09.01.

Xamarin.Android – Shadow

In Android you can’t set shadow property of an element except Button and TextView. So we have to define a shape in an xml and set is as background of an element. Let’s create our first shadow background! Create a shadow.xml file in the Resource/drawable folder, and paste this code in the file. After that, we have to set this drawable as the background of […]

Xamarin
2020.09.01.

Xamarin.Android – Automatic Grid Height

We all use usually grids in our apps. But it doesn’t matter how it appears. Here now it’s not going to be about having a grid and exposing it to a page and just going to be there, but there’s more of everything on a page and you don’t want to have a certain height and be able to scroll through a small area but […]

Xamarin
2020.09.01.

Xamarin.Android – Automatic ListView Height

We all use lists in our apps. But it doesn’t matter how it appears. Here now it’s not going to be about having a list and exposing it to a page and just going to be there, but there’s more of everything on a page and you don’t want to have a certain height and be able to scroll through a small area but be […]

Xamarin
2020.09.01.

Xamarin.Android – Using SVG Images, VectorDrawable

By default, Android does not support svg. For this, they invented VectorDrawable, which can display svgs. First step: create a Xamarin.Android Project. Go to Main.xml and paste this: Yes, we will use VestorDrawable as a normal Image (png). After that we have to create a VectorDrawable. Create a svg image. And download it. Paste this svg file to: http://inloop.github.io/svg2android/. Download this xml and paste this […]

Xamarin
2020.09.01.

Xamarin.Forms – Using MQTT and Azure IoT Hub

If you have an Azure IoT Hub, you may also need a mobile app. You can communicate with Azure IoT Hub just like a regular MQTT. First step: create a Xamarin.Forms application (but very important, you can use this snippet in any native project, just copy this to the platform’s project). Right click on the Standard Library and click on Manage NuGet Packages. Add the […]

Xamarin
2020.09.01.

Xamarin.Forms – Mock Locations

This Project you can find at: https://github.com/officialdoniald/Xamarin.Forms.MockLocation. Forms: We can detect Location changing in the Forms Project: https://github.com/officialdoniald/Xamarin.Forms.MockLocation/blob/master/Xamarin.Forms.MockLocation.Mobile/Xamarin.Forms.MockLocation.Mobile/MainPage.xaml.cs. If we will get a Mock Location this will detect it. The two platforms need to be discussed separately. In Android we can make an Implementation for Mock Location, but in iOS, we have to use a script file and we have to add to the emulator, […]

Xamarin
2020.09.01.

Xamarin.Forms Twilio implementation

This project you can find at: https://github.com/officialdoniald/Xamarin.Forms.Twilio Twilio created just for Android and iOS libs and not for Xamarin. So we need to create Bindings for Xamarin.Forms and native. First step: we need to create Android Binding Library(https://github.com/officialdoniald/Xamarin.Forms.Twilio/tree/master/Xamarin.Forms.Twilio.PoC/Xamarin.Android.Twilio.Client) and iOS Binding Library(https://github.com/officialdoniald/Xamarin.Forms.Twilio/tree/master/Xamarin.Forms.Twilio.PoC/Xamarin.iOS.Twilio.Client) in an Emptys Solution. We have to add the .aar/.jar file(to Jars folder to Android) and .a files (as native reference to iOS) […]

Xamarin
2020.09.01.

Xamarin.Forms send and receive SMS

This project you can find it at: https://github.com/officialdoniald/Xamarin.Forms.SendAndReceiveSMS We can easily send SMS from various platforms, but we can’t read SMSs so easily. Android: Receive SMS: In Android we can send and receive/read SMSs with just few line of code. We have to implement a BroadcastReceiver and gain permission in the AndroidManifest.xml. 1. AndroidManifest.xml(https://github.com/officialdoniald/Xamarin.Forms.SendAndReceiveSMS/blob/master/SendAndReceiveSMS/SendAndReceiveSMS.Android/Properties/AndroidManifest.xml): We have to gain permission to RECEIVE_SMS, READ_SMS, SEND_SMS and WRITE_SMS. […]