Unit testing with Xamarin.Forms' DependencyService
Xamarin.Forms ships with a built-in Service Locator, called DependencyService, which allows us to register and resolve dependencies. Typically, we use this to enable accessing and »
Backgrounding with Xamarin.Forms
In Xamarin University, we have a few in depth courses dedicated to learning the concepts of backgrounding in iOS and Android [iOS210, iOS211, AND210]. If you’ »
BDD Tests with Xamarin.UITest and SpecFlow
Writing applications, whether desktop, web, or mobile, is expensive. Developer time is a very limited commodity; one that we have to be careful not to waste. »
Easily launch the iOS Simulator from the command line
Launching the iOS Simulator is easy to do when we have a project already loaded in Xcode, Xamarin Studio, or Visual Studio. Simply run the project, »
Deploying a database file with a Xamarin.Forms app
It's very common for a mobile application to utilize a local sqlite database. The combination of Sqlite.net and Xamarin.Forms makes this very easy. One »