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Jim Bennett

Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, Xamarin Certified Developer, author of Xamarin In Action, blogger, speaker, father and lover of beer, whisky and Thai food. Opinions are my own.

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Updating your google-service.json from an AppCenter environment variable

Featured Jim Bennett 25 Sep 2018 Technology, xamarin, google play, appcenter, firebase

I've been working on an app that needs push notifications, but also needs to be open source. This led me to a problem - the google-services.json file. This file is needed to sign up for Firebase messaging to implement push on Android, but it also contains my API keys, values I do NOT want to be public. So - what to do? Well I'm building and distr…

Installing Google Apps in a Marshmallow emulator

Featured Jim Bennett 01 Mar 2016 xamarin, xamarin.android, Technology, emulator, google play, xamarin android player, marshmallow, genymotion

I've been trying to play with the Google Nearby Message API recently as this has capabilities to talk to Eddystone beacons. The problem I've come up against is that the example code uses the new Marshmallow permissions so I'm having a bit of a headache getting it working. I've got a Tesco Hudl 2 as my only physical device, and thanks to the annoy…

Updating your google-service.json from an AppCenter environment variable

Featured Jim Bennett 25 Sep 2018 Technology, xamarin, google play, appcenter, firebase

Installing Google Apps in a Marshmallow emulator

Featured Jim Bennett 01 Mar 2016 xamarin, xamarin.android, Technology, emulator, google play, xamarin android player, marshmallow, genymotion