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Jim Bennett


Mobile developer at EROAD, Xamarin MVP and Certified Developer, Microsoft MVP, author of Xamarin In Action, blogger, speaker, father and lover of beer, whisky and Thai food. Opinions are my own. Auckland, New Zealand
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Binding iOS libraries in Xamarin

Featured Jim Bennett 20 Feb 2015 iOS, ios, xamarin, xamarin.ios, xamarin.forms, estimote, ibeacon, binding

Update: Since writing this, James Montemagno from Xamarin contacted me to say they are working on an Estimote component. This is now available on the Xamarin component store. Check out his blog post here. I've been playing around with iBeacons a lot recently. They seem a really cool technology with a load of interesting potential use cases. My…

Images for an iOS app

Featured Jim Bennett 14 Aug 2014 Visual Studio, Technology, iOS, ios, javascript, technology, node

When developing for iOS there are a number of different image sizes needed. Just for the springboard icon you need different sizes for iPhones and iPads, both retina and normal versions. When you add spotlight icons (again both retina and normal), iTunes icons the list gets huge. To help with this and to practice my Node.js skills, I created a no…

Creating a NuGet PCL that works with Xamarin.ios

Featured Jim Bennett 07 Aug 2014 Technology, iOS, xamarin, nuget, xamarin.ios, pcl, nuspec, httpclient, portable class library

I've been playing with Xamarin.Forms recently to develop an iOS app. The aim is to use my portable open source Plex API in the app (more details of the app will come later once it's ready to release). The basic concept of Xamarin.Forms is to have a core portable class library containing all the application code, and very thin platform specific lib…

Synergy

Featured Jim Bennett 16 Jun 2014 Visual Studio, Technology, Development, iOS, synergy, shared screen

As you've probably seen from my other posts, I'm developing iOS apps using Visual Studio on Windows as my development environment, and a MacBook Pro for running the actual builds. This is a pain when I want to test. As good as Ripple is, it's not as good as the actual iOS simulator. It's a pain jumping from one computer to the other. Thats where…

Popping my open source cherry

Featured Jim Bennett 11 Jun 2014 Cordova, Technology, iOS, framework7, open source

Today the pull request for my first ever contribution to someone else's open source project was accepted and merged. It was a small bug fix to Framework7 - a really cool HTML5 framework for building iOS 7 style apps. I'm using it for my first cordova project and what it outputs looks just like a native iOS 7 app. Highly recommended. A big thank y…

Using Visual Studio to develop Cordova apps part 2 - Creating an app

Featured Jim Bennett 27 May 2014 Visual Studio, Cordova, Technology, Mac, Development, iOS, Using Visual Studio to develop Cordova apps, angular, topcoat

Building on the previous post in this series, I thought it would be fun to try to learn Angular.js and include this in my Cordova app. I could also do with so nice looking widgets, so I decided to have a play with TopCoat. First thing I need is an app to build. One of my current 'First World Problems' is having to convert from US units (mg/dL) to…

Using Visual Studio to develop Cordova apps

Featured Jim Bennett 14 May 2014 Visual Studio, Cordova, Technology, Mac, Development, iOS, Using Visual Studio to develop Cordova apps

So after yesterdays attempt to create a 'Hello World' app using the new Cordova tools for Visual Studio, I thought tonight I'd try again. If you haven't heard the news, Microsoft announced a CTP of support for Cordova inside Visual Studio. Thats right, Microsoft is opening up to a world of other devices. The aim is to allow you to build HTML5 app…

Expecting someone geekier

Auckland, New Zealand